I started college because everybody did. I finished college because my father did not.
In Spencer Johnson's small book The Present, an old man tells a teenage boy that wealth cannot be measured in gold or money alone. ...
I imagine the Grinch would hate smart phones. A smart phone provides nearly constant access to the noisy crowd of humanity. Anybody...
There is an old Harvard legend that on campus one day, the beloved Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs asked a student why he failed to complete an assignment. ...
If you are reading this, you are not dead. You have not experienced firsthand the process of dying. If you have witnessed death, you have seen it—no matter how close to it you...
In early 2012, I was sitting in an east African hotel with my new friend, “E.” E was born into an unreached people group, but along the way had discovered the Good News...
They entered the city and found the man carrying a jar of water. Peter and John exchanged knowing glances and followed him home. Despite the number of miracles they had witnessed during their time...
When I was young and my father stormed through the house shouting and swearing, I would tiptoe upstairs to my bedroom and...
Jesus commented, “This tax man, not the other, went home made right with God. If you walk around with your nose in...
One afternoon, my children and I sat together playing a card game on the floor in my son’s bedroom. I wish I could say my purpose that day was to create a warm...
This parable is frustratingly mystifying, and I sometimes wonder if a key sentence or two was accidentally dropped on its journey from story to scroll. Here is Jesus telling a story that rewards...
For whatever reason, I always thought about this parable as it related to the generous master and those ungrateful invited guests.
You may recall waking up the morning of December 26, 2004, and learning about the earthquakes triggering the powerful tsunami that swept the coastal areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Many were...
I often read the story of the Good Samaritan imagining that one day I will display the kind of heroic behavior the...
"Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" is one of the most familiar and popular of Christmas carols. Like "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus," it was written by the musical prolific poet Charles Wesley. Or, at...
The focal prayer of Advent is: "Come, Lord!" Remembering the yearning of Israel, we prepare to celebrate the first coming of the Messiah at Christmas. We also look forward to his second coming. And...
Jason finally had enough. His officemate and frequent work partner would have to be confronted. “Your delays make us miss deadline after deadline,” Jason said. “And I’m sorry to have to tell you.” ..
It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun’s light failed...
One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”...
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