As a father, I love to hear my children sing. This would be true even if my kids couldn't stay on pitch...
Have you ever been in a prayer meeting when someone sneaks in some preaching into a prayer? I have, more times than I'd like to count. I think, for example, of a time...
People who get in my car notice the Bilbo Baggins action figure sitting in the console. With the inevitable grin, they ask...
For years, I never understood my mom and step-dad’s television-watching arrangement. Though my mom doesn’t really like sports or hunting or wild...
I pulled off the road along US Route 11 and into the parking lot of a no-name service station, the sort you’d expect for rural Virginia: dirty windows, questionable service—and people who made...
In yesterday's reflection, I considered the implications of Paul's enthusiastic use of language when he prays that we will know God's power...
Words are fantastic tools for communication. But, sometimes our words fail us. When someone has done something unusually wonderful for us, "Thank...
By the time we were speeding west from Farmland, Indiana, to St. Louis and beyond in the borrowed red Mustang, my brother and I lived such separate lives that we could amuse one...
In yesterday's reflection, I began considering Paul's prayer that we might know "the riches of [God's] glorious inheritance in his holy people."...
In the introduction to Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, Tim Keller and Katherine Leary Alsdorf share the story of Leaf by Niggle, a short story written by J.R.R. Tolkien.....
God owns all parts of life, all parts of reality. He’s not confined to the church. He owns the culture, government, the economic system, everything. We all nod and say that’s true. It’s...
It’s always interesting to see how uncomfortable companies get this time of year. Many go to great extremes to make Christmas just another winter day, instead of a Christian High Holy day. ...
Periodically, I get emails proclaiming good news. I have received a glorious inheritance. Someone formerly unknown to me has died and left...
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily...
Hope is in short supply these days. In this morning's newspaper, I read about growing tensions in the Middle East and the...
She loves to be tickled. When most kids would squirm and ask you to stop, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter giggles, “Tickle, Daddy!” as if she wants more. I love those moments with my children....
In Ephesians 1:17-19, Paul prays that the recipients of his letter might know the hope that comes in response to God's calling. As we realize that God has called us to share in...
A colleague was telling me about an epic deal he was working on, involving dozens of high-powered lawyers and bankers.
Today, we are in the first week of Advent, the Christian season of the year that helps us prepare for celebrating the...
In recent reflections, we have been focusing on Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1:15-23. After giving thanks for the recipients of his letter, he prays that they would grow in their knowledge of God and...
