Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they…

I was baptized by my father and another minister in a frigid northern California mountain stream at a campmeeting site we affectionately called Heaven’s Hill.…

“I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” After saying these words, my pastor lowered…

The Bible is a big book — the Book of books. Though its truths are plain and simple in many respects, it can be complex…

If we are to be disciples, shouldn’t we begin by asking just who we will follow? Or more pointedly, who is our Master? At whose…

My husband and I have been youth leaders for twenty years. Lately, we’ve noticed that our youth have a bold, almost reckless, abandon for their…

  The Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, gives us a vivid picture of what it means to follow Christ. In Old Testament times, the native-born…

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…