Today is Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday in the Christian Year (or Church Year or Liturgical Year). What began in Advent a year ago is now coming to a conclusion. We...
Henry solved the world’s problems every day before lunch. Later he’d tackle the hard stuff. And he was sharp. Just ask him. No, wait: don’t ask him. Either way, he’d tell you. .....
When I was a boy, my parents taught me that it was wrong to boast. If I got an A on a math test or hit a double for my Little League team...
Howard Butt, Jr. of Laity Lodge shares another message on faith and work, and putting the goal at hand before our egos.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a day set apart by the national government so that Americans might express their thanks. I think it's a fine thing that the United States (among...
He woos me from the burned up edges of my faith, and I am grateful to find myself eating from the center of the pie.
A friend confided that, lately, he goes home from work every day feeling like a failure.
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Are you overflowing with thankfulness today? If you live in the United States, you might feel that such an abundance of gratitude is appropriate for today, since this is Thanksgiving Day, a...
During my sixteen years as pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church, one of my favorite events was our annual Thanksgiving Eve worship service.
"Pray for the people with whom you work and ask God to allow you to be one link in the chain of...
If your doctor told you today that you had an enlarged heart, this would not be good news.
Our friend Tony is a Christian who makes pizza. No, he doesn't spell out Jesus with the pepperoni. He says, "We can try too hard to show we're Christians. As if putting Jesus...
One of my all-time favorite movies in Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a self-centered weatherman who ends up trapped in a time warp. He is stuck in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania,...
Few jobs today are stress-free or even low-stress: not enough resources, not enough people, normal organizational politics and conflicts, reorganizations and layoffs...
Editor's Note: According to Ecclesiastes 3, "There is a time for everything...." Not everything on that list, however, comes to us easily. Some items confound, others liberate, and none of them...
Mike Eaton of Greater Seas, a "Christian business blog for entrepreneurs and professionals with a desire to advance the kingdom of heaven...
When news of Uriah’s death reached David, he deceived himself into thinking he was beyond the reach of God’s judgment and the people’s disgust. So he took Bathsheba as his wife. He acted...
When the doctors arrive, they come with their clipboards and hours of questions.
David chose to trust in his own power and mistrust God’s power. That choice endangered his very soul. He needed to be rescued from himself. But this mess was of his own making...
