Are you stuck? Feel like you haven't grown spiritually in years? There's a pretty good chance that the issue has to do with surrender. In these classic verses...
Charles Sprague Pearce, 'Prayer' (1886), mural in the north corridor, Great Hall, Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.
"You're not listening to me!" says my wife.
The third chapter of Genesis describes Adam and Eve sinning by eating the fruit of the tree of good and evil. But then the text portrays a scene of quiet, of...
I've been thinking a lot about revival lately. Revival is restoration of an individual or the church itself to a vital and fervent relationship with God after...
James J. Tissot (1836-1902, French artist and illustrator), "David Praying in the Night," OT watercolour series. Jewish Museum, New York.
A new year is a time to look forward. A time to stretch. A time to grow. A time to stop babying yourself.
Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656), 'King David Playing the Harp' (1611), 82x65cm, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland.
It seems like I'm always losing something. Then I spend time looking again and again in the same places, until suddenly my eye spots it. Why didn't I see it...
Years ago, bodybuilder Charles Atlas made famous the "97-pound weakling." I weigh considerably more than 97 pounds -- too much, in fact. But this last year...
Thomas Cole, 'The Garden of Eden' (1828), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.I am drawn again and again to a couple of verses in the creation account:
My dream left me depressed. All night long, it seemed, I had tried to "scrounge" a few personal possessions before I left home for good.
But arguing with God is never a good idea. You don't win. Even if you say "No" (and God may let you), you lose. When you say "no" or "I can't," you miss out on...
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Jennifer Churchmember wouldn't be caught dead with theNational Enquireron her coffee table. She doesn't need it. She has her own sources for the "inside scoop"...
Thomas Cole, 'The Garden of Eden' (1828), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.I am drawn again and again to a couple of verses in the creation account:
James J. Tissot (1836-1902, French artist and illustrator), "David Praying in the Night," OT watercolour series. Jewish Museum, New York.
I've been thinking a lot about revival lately. Revival is restoration of an individual or the church itself to a vital and fervent relationship with God after...
In 1854, London was stricken with a devastating cholera epidemic. No one knew the cause of the disease. Panic was widespread.
It seems like I'm always losing something. Then I spend time looking again and again in the same places, until suddenly my eye spots it. Why didn't I see it...
The telephone pole that captures my attention nursed no life-long ambition to telecommunications greatness. It was once a Douglas fir towering nearly 80 feet...
We had our first frost a few days ago, and had spent several days winterizing our house. So had this mouse couple. At the bottom of the woodpile their nest...
Floyd passed away within the week, but that prayer had changed the family and brought them nearer to God. It's a moment few of them will forget.
Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656), 'King David Playing the Harp' (1611), 82x65cm, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland.
Years ago, bodybuilder Charles Atlas made famous the "97-pound weakling." I weigh considerably more than 97 pounds -- too much, in fact. But this last year...
Church people, Christian people can be so picky and ungrateful. I know. I've served them for 35 years and bear the wounds in my psyche and in my family to...
The momma duck struts across the lawn and into a pond. Right behind her follow eight tiny ducklings. Plunk, plunk, plunk. Into the water they follow, and lo,...