When I was a kid in the early 1960s, we often lost our TV network signal. The screen would suddenly go blank...
Christians on serving for real in the food services industry. Plus an overview of hospitality in Luke's gospel.
I like the stories of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods. The Greeks developed elaborate stories, created temples, paid homage, and sacrificed to these gods who were usually all too human with...
"Christians in public leadership would be wise to pursue their lives in ways different from the dominant culture."
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...
On my mother’s side, I come from a long line of “creatives.” Which is a nice way of saying our family is a little whacked-out.
Right out of high school, I got a job at the gas station just down the road. I wanted to be a...
I have had many friends who struggled with faith because they saw their parents put on a show of Christianity but fail...
How should a believer leave his or her job? With grace and integrity, writes Diane Paddison, author of Work, Love, Pray: Practical...
In the eighteenth century a substantial revival occurred across Great Britain. Thousands of working class poor came...
After the loss of his father in a tragic accident, George Barron tells the story of how his mother worked to honor his father's memory by raising their four boys to be men...
Even as we once put off our old self and put on our new self, we are to choose to live into the new each day. At times, we fall back into our...
I relished those first few years in the executive suite. Confident. Bold. That’s the image I wanted to project. But soon enough...
Henri Nouwen was a successful university professor, writer, and lecturer. At the height of his career, he left the prestigious world of Harvard to live and work among the mentally handicapped and...
Author John Erickson started submitting his short stories in 1967 while working full-time as a cowboy. But by ’82—with two new rejection slips and his wife pregnant with their third child—a few...
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Sample assignments for seminary professors teaching Ecclesiology or Missiology.
I remember the brilliant light igniting the eerie black mornings, the sun still fast asleep in the hay. The chocolate letters jumped...
In these few reflections, we have seen that growing up in Christ depends on Christ. He is the head from which the body grows to maturity. He is the one who supplies what...
Text: Isaiah 43:18-19 18 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold...
