Underneath the story of Christmas that we celebrate every year is another story. It is a story of waiting as long and as misunderstood as the 400 years of si...

May Christmas remind you how far God came just for you. While the story is simple, the message is profound and life-changing. God broke through the boundary ...

If Advent teaches us anything, it is that waiting is the introduction to God’s best gifts. The stories of waiting in the Bible reveal great stories of persev...

Startle me out of my complacency, God, this and every day. Dec 4 reading from The Daily Feast. Are we so used to the story of Christmas that we are no longer...

I love a decorated house. Getting it there, is another story. No matter how I store, organize or try to schedule; decorating the house for Christmas is mes...

We need more gratitude in this world. It is an oil for relationship that heals and calms. It is a telescope that sees the world in bright color and hopeful p...

Are we a nation God can bless or are we losing our status as a “one nation under God?” Some would say that our nation is better off without the Judeo-Christi...

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. We have made it a day for sharing cards, chocolate, flowers, and making expensive dining reservations. Clearly, retail has driv...

Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God! Isaiah 40:3, NLT “We’re going straight through,” my father announced as he loaded two sleepy girls...

As we celebrate the freedoms our country has provided, we also live in the tension of what sometimes feels more like chaos than freedom. It is good to remem...

So Christmas is over for this year. You have probably already made mental notes about what you will or will not do next year. And perhaps everything that h...

Sight is an undervalued gift. We learned that painful truth as we watched the slow vision loss our daughter experienced. It was a loss that compromised ind...

Immediately [Zechariah's] mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising God. Luke 1:64, NIV First words. We collect them from ...

When I returned from Kenya, I came home with a prayer for peace for that country. Tribal warring had rocked the country. I had never been closer to such riv...

Gratitude begins in a heart That understands everything in life is gift Breath and heartbeat, Mind and cell structure, Gravity and weather, Skill and passion...

The family has gathered and gone, opened presents may still wait to find their new homes, the refrigerator is crammed with left overs. December 25 has come ...

We are so close to Christmas. But are we just as close to Christmas Truth? Do we understand that Love is the best gift of Christmas? Come as a baby, Jesus de...

I am learning that Advent is a time to re-focus. It isn’t just an opportunity to do Christmas better. No one can improve on what God did in Bethlehem that fi...

Receive a "Quiet Circle" Advent reading for each day of this week by signing up for this website using the "Connect" button. Here is the first reading for th...