The first time Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he half-heartedly said, “So you’re the little lady who wrote the book that started the war.”…

Corinthian Crisis The church in Corinth was much like the church today: It struggled with its Christian identity in the midst of a pagan culture…

First love! Grade two. I could hold a book in my hand and read it cover to cover. By grade three, I had embraced a…

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are often called Christians. Jesus, however, never referred to those who followed Him as Christians; He called them disciples.…

The story is told of an American who scoffed at a French tightrope walker. Despite the Frenchman’s long list of daring accomplishments, the American challenged…

With every centimeter of progress heralded by the hallway growth chart, my panic and trepidation become more deeply rooted in the reality that someday —…

For six thousand years, God’s love has called us back when we’ve strayed. In the first two thousand years, God worked with individuals in a…

The Door and the Storm by Sarah Leteta   I’m reading the book of Revelation. It’s night and it’s stormy, which seems appropriate. Isn’t a good…

The first book of the Bible, Genesis, contains occasional prophetic statements scattered like seeds throughout its chapters. Revelation, the Bible’s last book, reveals the great…

My mind goes blank when someone asks if I have a favorite verse, even when the question is more specific, as in “Write a five-hundred…