When I was a teenager, needing ample sleep I rarely got, waking me up in the morning was rather like raising the dead.
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When people see the fruit of the light in us, the deeds of darkness will be exposed as fruitless and empty. What is the goal of this exposing?
The LORD says a most curious thing to the king: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek” (110:4). What does this mean?
My dad, Marshall Singleton, grew up in scarcity. Though the post-World War II era was a time of abundance for many in...
I expect no one would disagree that creative innovation often arises from scarcity. From Ritz cracker apple pie to the dinners we...
Scarcity was already on my mind this morning when, as I waited to order coffee, I overheard a couple whose two young...
As Christians, we are "light in the Lord" and "children of light" (5:8). Yet we continue to live in a world of...
I’ve heard that most of our theology is really autobiography. This is true in my case because I am my father’s daughter...
The Israelites in exile in Babylon were most likely not expecting to hear this word from the Lord. In fact, they were hearing quite different things from other prophets. They expected deliverance, not this.
Perhaps you remember the Saturday Night Live character known as Stuart Smalley. He starred in a fictional self-help program called "Daily Affirmation...
Before we received God's grace through faith, we lived in the world of darkness. In fact, we "were once darkness."
Today, I want to reflect a bit more on the process of discovering which actions are pleasing to God (and, therefore, which...
I’m sitting in a quiet corner of the living room with an open book on my lap, not reading. The book is...
As I reflect on this passage from Ephesians, I find myself more and more impressed by something I might easily have taken for granted. Verse 10 says that we are to "find out...
My senior year of college I was named as editor of the student newspaper. I couldn’t believe it. I would oversee about...
When I was growing up, if I did something foolish, my parents would admonish me with a familiar refrain: "Mark, use your head!" They wanted me to think about my actions before I acted.
Can an office assistant or a research associate have influence for the Kingdom of God? ...
At the tender age of seventeen, Joseph was clearly gifted and trustworthy. But he wasn’t a polished product. We know he wasn’t...
My favorite professor in college had a unique way of dealing with the rare student who fell asleep in her class. The...
