Think of someone you dearly loved whom you have lost. What would you do to have that person back? Would you do anything? Anything?
This is the situation in which Jacob…
How does God work in our lives? How does He bring us to Himself?
Sometimes He works through a Damascus-road experience: Suddenly, in an instant, an enemy of Jesus becomes His…
James tells us: "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6).
But who is proud?
Consider some obvious biblical examples
Haman, rejoicing in the favor of the king and…
In the beginning of 2015, let’s reflect on beginnings:
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
So begins the Bible. So begins this creation, this eon.…
This time of year we read of Mary magnifying God; we sing of Mary holding the baby Jesus.
But put yourself in Mary’s shoes. A young woman, probably about sixteen years…
On August 9, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Wilson is white. Brown was black.
Was that shooting racially motivated?
In the summer of 1975 I worked…