Sep 5, 2025 | Perspectives
Understanding the Idea of a Guardian Angel Beliefs about angels are typically an amalgam of what people pick up from popular culture, what they remember from childhood cartoons, and what they have culled from casual Bible reading. Consequently, there are a lot of...
Sep 2, 2025 | Inspiration
Imagine yourself in the following scenario. Over a period of three or four months, you begin to experience mysterious symptoms—a marked decrease in energy, intermittent insomnia, sudden cravings for sweets, and irritability. You feel like something isn’t right, so you...
Aug 29, 2025 | Pastor's Life
You may have missed the Blessing like I did, perhaps in even more dramatic or difficult ways. But all our paths lead to a turning point. To a choice. The choice I made at seventeen, the choice you may need to make, isn’t something new. We can see an amazing picture of...
Aug 26, 2025 | Pastor's Life
On Sunday mornings, between 8 and 11 a.m., you may have somewhat of a captive audience as you stand at the pulpit, leading your congregation through a worship service. But after the service, once church members are finished mingling over coffee and cookies outside of...
Aug 22, 2025 | Leadership
How to Identify and Resist Manipulation A counseling professor once told a woman in one of my husband’s lab groups, “Your tears don’t move me.” His words stunned the group, but the woman stopped crying. “Those are tears of frustration not brokenness.” We may question...
Aug 15, 2025 | Perspectives
Science and the Bible: Understanding Truth Through the Ages The Bible is the divine Word of God, but I think we are justified in believing that God expected every generation to interpret the Word according to the age in which they live. Those who dispute this put a...
Aug 12, 2025 | Devotion, Editor's Pick
Who is the most joyful person you know? Stop—don’t keep on reading. I want you to think about the most joyful person you know. How do you feel when you’re around them? Why We Must Choose Joy Daily In the providence of God, I was to teach Philippians 1 with the title...
Aug 6, 2025 | Perspectives
What I’ve learned about the power of faith to repair what’s broken in our confused and divided nation. “How do we turn things around in this country?” That’s a question I hear quite often, coming from folks of all ages and points of view. You may have muttered the...
