Why do we believe that we can plot our way, goal set to a finely accomplished life, and edit out the inconveniences and challenges that get

The first time I heard the term, new normal, was after 9-11/

How many weeks have we sheltered in place?

I remember when I had the mumps. My painful, swollen jaw along with the fever that made me feel miserable was bad enough. What I hated...

It looks like small talk after the Passover meal. Jesus and his disciples talk while the women clear the table and set the room right. ...

Perhaps the only invited participant on Palm Sunday was a donkey. A halting, hee-hawing, stubborn donkey. This was no accidental...

The history of April Fool’s Day is debatable; the practice is not. People enjoy playing harmless jokes and pranks to catch someone in a...

They were blind. Dark is all they saw. However, there was nothing wrong with their hearing. They knew that Jesus, the Healer, was near....

We shun the practice of bowing before sculptured idols and leaving some payment or tribute. We know there is no heartbeat in a statue,...

Our world is starving for in-person holiness. Everybody’s different truths collide. The general belief that there is no absolute truth...

God is not a stranger to our mishaps in love. He sees every rejection, every betrayal, every argument, every separation. He longs for...

What we hold in our hearts, shapes us. That’s why God wants to make sure that everything we hold here, including what we hide, passes...

Nothing brings us to God more quickly than our questions. And we have them. They tumble out of hidden places in our hearts. They loom...

The biggest disconnect in our prayer and the most common reason we don’t experience change through prayer is because we talk more than we...

It was a Bible study on the story of David that opened a door for the most important lesson about prayer I think I have learned. I had...

Transformation is a change so deep and formative that what it brings is literally all new. New is God’s best work. He uses His unlimited...

How long can you go without speaking to someone you live with or someone you care about? Probably not very long. We find ways to talk...

And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52 How do you grow wisdom or stature? How do you grow in...

I stood in the group of fourth to sixth graders, awkward in my pre-adolescence. It was Wednesday night and I was a part of an organized...

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...