Every teen needs to know what it is to look for and to have a real job. ...
Most Christians don’t find their workplaces very supportive of their faith. Generally, there is limited scope for explicitly Christian witness and action...
Psalm 51 is a heartfelt, aching prayer for forgiveness. In this prayer, David begins by crying out to God for mercy (v. 1). He asks to be cleansed of his guilt (v. 2), freely acknowledging his sin...
In our translation, Ephesians 3:8 refers to "the boundless riches of Christ." The original Greek adjective, translated here as "boundless," is an...
McDonald’s, 1991. I was 18 and working front counter when a regional manager asked me if I’d ever considered moving up in the restaurant. "No way," I said. "That’s for people like you."...
Mark comes home from another exhausting night in the pediatric emergency room. In his mind he reviews the children’s faces, the difficult cases, the pained parents, and the good that he and his...
In third grade, I taught myself to raise one eyebrow at a time.
Like millions of people throughout the world, I became a devoted fan of Downton Abbey. This PBS drama tells the story of an aristocratic British family in the first decades of the twentieth century...
When you hear the word "togetherness," what comes to mind? I think of family vacations when I was young—my parents and three siblings driving in a car along a mountain road, on our...
Fourteen-year-old Larissa Heatley, Dallas Willard’s only granddaughter, delivered a personal tribute at his memorial service. She is sharing her message with us today, giving us a sweet, intimate...
Anytime you hear a noun followed by "of mysteries," you expect it to be filled with intrigue and excitement. Whether it's the "land of mysteries" or "the hall of mysteries" or the "department of...
In the first two chapters of Ephesians, Paul paints in broad strokes a picture of God's saving, unifying work in the cosmos...
Lately, I have been coaching one of our managers on how to appear more confident in front of groups.
As you may know, I was Senior Pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church in Southern California from 1991 through 2007. In my first years as pastor of this fine church, I had the privilege of being...
In the first-century Mediterranean world, people thought they knew where the gods lived when they were on earth. The gods dwelled in temples, holy places set apart for them and the rituals...
I was lying in bed one night and thought about Jesus being a carpenter and how he started his ministry at thirty...
I easily get sidetracked in Bible study, especially on those Sunday mornings when my study partners are a handful of inquisitive fifth-graders.
St. Augustine said, “Dear Lord, I want to be good … but later on, not just yet.”I think that’s how most of us feel a lot of the time. We want to be...
Our young niece trailed behind my husband.
In Ephesians 2:20, we read that the household of God is "built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ...
