Holding on to Faith in the Midst of a Fuzzy Future Ahhh . . . a new year. The future wrapped in a new beginning. Twelve months of potential. But not everyone is optimistic about the future. Some say that if the past couple of years is any indication, we’re in...
Keeping Unity as We Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. As Christians, we don’t make unity, we keep unity. Because of Christ, Christians from every tribe, tongue, and nation are already unified by the Holy Spirit. But we don’t always behave that way, do we? I...
Courage and Wait: Out With the Old and In With a New “One Word” for 2022 I gave up new year’s resolutions a long time ago—mostly because they rarely lasted into March. For the past seven years I’ve accepted the One-Word challenge, selecting one word as an...
Best Advice Ever A friend recently gave me a Christmas gift with one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received. The wisdom that I intend to take with me into the new year is written on a sign that says: Give it to God . . . and go to sleep. Truth be told,...
Thankful Despite? It’s a tough world out there . . . and getting tougher every day. Christians beheaded in Nigeria. Imprisoned in China. Murdered in Afghanistan. And for decades, fellow believers in the United States shook their heads in horror, prayed for...
National Absurdity Day Happy National Absurdity Day! Yes, National Absurdity Day really is a thing, celebrated annually on November 20. According to NationalDayCalendar.com, “this day was created . . . to recall and note some of the entirely off the wall and...
Is There Really Such a Thing as Time Management? With the end of another annual Daylight Savings Time (DST) coming this weekend, I’ve been thinking about the fleeting nature of time. I frequently talk about my need for better time management skills. Can you...
My Name is Barabbas He was a rebel and a murderer. Condemned to die without any chance of appeal. He was guilty and he knew it. Then when it appeared all hope was gone, reprieve arrived in the form of another chosen to die in his place (Luke 23). I have been a...
National I Am in Control Day Church tradition commemorates the Thursday before Easter as “Maundy Thursday”—the day of Jesus’ last supper with His disciples. It was the evening before His crucifixion, when He spent time in the Garden of Gethsemane with His...
Misconceptions About Love We want love. We need love. More than one thousand song titles contain the word love. Books have been written about it. Poems recited. We chase it and sing about it and fall for imitations. And no matter what we do, we can’t get...
Changing the Way We View Substitution With Easter fast approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about...
Time Constraints . . . Or Not It has been almost two weeks and I’m finally adjusting to the time change after...
Commanded to Love Differently Shouldn’t loving others be something we do because we want to? After all, if we...