Reason Enough
Reading Time: 3 minutesLike many other women, I can look you in the eye and carry on an intelligent conversation while overhearing…
River of Life
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlong the muddied banks of the Jordan, thin reeds, the color of sage, reached toward the sky, bending gently…
Needed: Peacemakers
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the Bible we find a wonderful story of reconciliation between two brothers, Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33). For…
Shipwrecked!
Reading Time: 3 minutesVenturing out on the lonely highways and byways of Asia Minor in the days of the early church put…
What Is a Pastor’s God-given Duty?
Reading Time: 8 minutes“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your…
Thy Kingdom Come
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 2000 movie Pay It Forward tells the story of a seventh grader named Trevor, whose new social studies…
The Revelation Challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen my youngest son was in fifth grade at a Christian school, he surprised me one day with this…
What it Means to Live and Lead from the Center
Reading Time: 3 minutesWord-plays on “the center” and “centering” have come to my attention often in my new role at the
Patience, First and Last
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you ever noticed that in his famous list of love’s qualities in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, the apostle Paul…
When the Answer is No
Reading Time: 5 minutesI stared at the mortuary pamphlet in my hand. Dates, times, places. Death — the death of my grandfather,…