I opened my Living Bible like a child opens a present, eager to enjoy what was inside. I was enjoying an oasis after a hard semester...

Before spiritual formation was a buzz word among Christians, I think it was what I hungered for early in my commitment to follow Jesus....

Do you have a gardener? A gardener is different from a landscape service who comes in to mow and trim and get to the next job as quickly...

Why did we take this journey to the cross? For me it was for the honesty that the cross demands. Have you noticed how no one lied from...

Jesus had finished delivering great words about kingdom living to the crowd that had scattered on a hillside in Galilee. Then he walked...

After naming his disciples and calling them together, Jesus left the quiet hillside to face the crowd that was waiting for him. They had...

No one likes to be singled out for doing something wrong, especially when it is unintentional. That's what happened to Jesus' disciples...

No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. Luke 5:36 When is old over? When is it time for something new? Read...

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...

Do you eat breakfast? It’s the most important meal of the day that nobody has time to fix. Most mornings it’s a fiber-rich, low sugar...

Sometimes we take the sad journey to Emmaus like two disheartened disciples took that first Easter. It is the journey when we think all...

What God did on Easter cannot be explained, dissected, formulized, or ignored. Virgin birth should have prepared us. God came to...

What does it mean if God lays His hand on hand on you? It's in verse 5 of Psalm 139. I've read this passage many times but I can't...

How we respond to what God knows about us grows our relationship with God or interferes with it. We may be very comfortable with letting...

Too many times we come to God so full of what we want to say that we don’t give Him time to speak. We pour out our hearts because we’ve...

Have you been reading Psalm 139 1-18 as suggested last week? I have and it has washed over me with a new sense of how much God knows...

To devote yourself to something is to lean hard into it, give it full focus, make it a priority. We devote ourselves to family as we...