The Baptized Life
Reading Time: 6 minutesI was baptized by my father and another minister in a frigid northern California mountain stream at a campmeeting…
Preparing for the Plunge
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” After saying…
Reflection and Reality
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Bible is a big book — the Book of books. Though its truths are plain and simple in…
“Who Do You Say I Am?”
Reading Time: 6 minutesIf we are to be disciples, shouldn’t we begin by asking just who we will follow? Or more pointedly,…
Live That Life
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy husband and I have been youth leaders for twenty years. Lately, we’ve noticed that our youth have a…
Tabernacling
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, gives us a vivid picture of what it means to follow Christ. In…
Sing a Morning Hymn
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first time Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he half-heartedly said, “So you’re the little lady who wrote…
One Lord Medley
Reading Time: 6 minutesCorinthian Crisis The church in Corinth was much like the church today: It struggled with its Christian identity in the…
On the Fringe of Feeling
Reading Time: 4 minutesFirst love! Grade two. I could hold a book in my hand and read it cover to cover. By…
Marks of a Disciple
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs followers of Jesus Christ, we are often called Christians. Jesus, however, never referred to those who followed Him…