What are your markers of faith from 2018? Where did God teach you something about Himself or something about you? I’ve been thinking...

The New Year, with its blank slate, is both intimidating and exhilarating. This year I am borrowing one of my favorite prayers from...

Bethlehem…Egypt…Nazareth…the desert…Samaria… Jerusalem…Gethsemane…to the cross…into heaven. Luke 2:4; Mat. 2:13, 23, 4:1; John 4:4; Mark...

Magi from the east came . . . to worship him. Matthew 2:1,2 The Magi made the longest trip. They are the ones who receive the award for...

Though he was in the world . . . the world did not recognize him. John 1:10 The saddest part of the Christmas story is how many didn’t...

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

I don’t like the panic that finds easy entrance into our world at Christmas. The stressed-out shoppers looking for bargains and finding...

Read Luke 5: 27-28 Matthew was a tax collector. He was hated, snubbed, and considered a Jewish traitor. He over-collected required...

Everything was against four friends who took their paraplegic friend to Jesus. Before wheelchairs or medical transport, there was just a...

How can a two-letter word take down your faith? How can something so small demoralize you, capture you, and leave you chained to...

Sometimes I see myself too well in scripture, and not where I would like. I would like to be the little boy who brought the basket of...

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, and I mean put our heart and mind in every word and phrase, when we obey the instructions in ways that...

If we don’t pray for God to lead us, how can we pray for Him to deliver us? Evil snakes its way through our lives, our family’s lives,...

Lead me not into temptation. Lead me is a simple prayer asking for God’s leadership. These two words cover a lot of unexplored...

Forgive us . . . as we forgive. Last week's prayer for forgiveness is not a stand alone prayer. It comes as a duet. We pray for...

Lisa looked at me with her big, sad eyes, lips quivering, face down, and asked, “Will you forgive me?” I melted. I don’t even remember...

Give us this day our daily bread. Is there anything more tantalizing that a slice of fresh baked bread slathered with butter? What the...

Have you ever struggled to accept God’s will? Have you ever treated it as something imposed upon you that you knew you should want, but...

We are territorial people. We don’t like it when someone throws trash into our yard, parks where our car belongs, sits at our desk, or...

I keep my mother’s china in a special place away from my everyday dishes. When I want to use it, I carefully remove one or two pieces at...