Where do you want to go when bad things happen? That place for me is home. When the day has been rough, and you feel a bit beaten up by...

Safely home, I opened the hatch, only to find groceries strewn across the back of the car. I had suspected as much. All the clattering...

They say repetition is a good thing. I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with that statement. But there are conditions . . . limits....

I am in the process of dismantling my house. I say “house” because it no longer resembles the home I assembled those many years ago. It’s...

Since we are looking deeply into how to walk with the Lord, and since we are His disciples living under the new covenant, let’s now turn...

Our family was a hiking family. We would regularly set out in search of a good trail whenever time allowed. On the familiar trails we...

Have you ever attempted to walk across a path with holes in the pavers . . . in high heels? Or maybe you’ve tried to navigate, still in...

Occupied by many challenges, what was it young Timothy needed to know most? The urging of his mentor likely mimicked what Paul himself...

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven...

Forty days counted out past Resurrection Sunday is a day marked for remembrance. Remembrance of the day, ages ago, when the Son of God...

I had recently been digging through decades of family memorabilia and came across several of my old journals. And since I wasn’t in any...

My latest essay for Renew.org... Greater than the return of the hobbits to the Shire, greater than Dorothy waking in Kansas, even greater...

Our prayer, Holy Father, is this: When the advent of Easter is no longer before us, And these holy days fade away, May we not forget to...

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the...

I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do (Jn 17:4). Jesus looked to His Father for the strength He...

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Here a dinner was given...

Her green eyes pooled with tears as she tried to choke out the truthful words, "I'm dying." A lack of understanding, topped with fear,...

For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, yet I will...

There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, “Enough!”: the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never...

During an early morning Bible read, a particular morsel captured my attention. But it doesn’t lie within a verse to be referred to. It’s...