"In the beginning.... Christ!" While it may not be written that way in any of our translations, Scripture reveals it to be entirely...

AMEN. We add it to our prayers almost by instinct, but do we really understand what it means? Is it merely a polite way to close a...

When working with teenagers, one has to keep vigilant about staying up to date with an ever-changing vocabulary. For instance, one...

As a young adult living in South Carolina, a motorcycle excursion up into the mountains was a regular Saturday afternoon highlight. ...

30 years ago, a U.N. Peacekeeping initiative called Operation Restore Hope was established to secure trade routes so that starving...

What stops you from praying? I’m, of course, writing to those who profess to believe in the value of prayer, many of whom are vigilant in...

Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors… My first introduction to a “Loan Shark” was in Junior High. Students with loose cash...

God’s will, what he wants and decrees to happen, is the status-quo in Heaven. Jesus assumes as much in the phrase “thy will be done on...

Prior to getting married, my wife and I did as many couples do: we created a “wedding registry.” That’s a fancy term for going around the...

It’s sometimes said so quickly that it actually becomes a title for the prayer rather than the content of it. Yet there is so much packed...

Aside from constructing the words to a poem that has probably become one of the most beloved and well-known hymns in modern history,...

“Dear Jesus, thank you for this day….” Night after night, for literally thousands of nights, my parents would do just as I do with my own...

I wish I sounded more intelligent when I prayed I hope she doesn't call on me, I'm really not good at praying in groups If I prayed...

Stability, security, sustenance and sin all abounded in the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. From a study of his prayers in the short...

17th English churchman Thomas Fuller said that “flattery is to friendship what a wolf is to a dog.” They may appear similar on the...

Once a month, Morristown Elementary School in rural Indiana distributed a periodical called Highlights for Children to each of its 5th...

“Put your money where your mouth is.” It’s a well known phrase and illustrates in a poignant way to determine what a person really...

Anthony Ray Hinton sat on Alabama’s death row for nearly 30 years convicted of crimes he did not commit. In his book “The Sun Does...

Psalm 51 I've just finished reading Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus at the outset of an annual quest to read through the Bible (A...

1 Samuel 30:1-8 You were only gone for fifteen minutes. It wouldn’t be a problem to leave the kids at home for fifteen minutes. What kind...