All the ways in which our lives have meaning, purpose and direction are the result of Christ working in us to do that which is pleasing in his sight.

Before we explore the differences our prayers make, we need to be clear about the kind of God to whom we direct our prayers.

Part of the good news of the Resurrection is the promise that we will experience bodily resurrection at the time of the Second Coming.

God did and still does use such people to fulfill his will for his people. But Christ is the glue that holds the world together.

God used the story of Jonah to shock the Jewish people of that day into realizing the absurdity of limiting God's grace to only Jewish people.

As I approach four score years, the one characteristic I value most in myself and others is persistency. Can anything be achieved without it?

The story of the birth of Jesus is fraught with hardship, poverty, plots to murder, death of innocent children, stress and anguish.

The gospel writer Mark is a person I would like to have known.

To live in covenant with God means that God cares. Try to tell that to people smarting from the sting of the death of a loved one, and they might laugh in your face:

Everyone yearns to belong, to be a part of a family or fellowship, and to have friends.

Easter is when we pick up the pieces of our lives and reclaim that sure, strong faith of our childhood, that God works through all circumstance, the bitter and the sweet, for our good and for his ...

Life is unpredictable, so how do we face the future with a minimum amount of fear and anxiety?

Advent bids us come to rediscover that the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endures forever.

At Jesus'sbaptism, he received his calling. In Old Testament language, Jesus was anointed by God himself.

The story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50 provides hope for all families who experience conflicts.

No one likes a fence straddler. We like people to take a stand, even if not our own: "Be either for me or against me."

We fall down the devil's slippery slope of idolatry when we start worshipping the God who has been fashioned from our stubbornly held prejudices and belief systems rather than the God of grace, ...

As a former family therapist, I often heard parents lament, "I can't believe my own child could have done such a thing. Why, we all go to Sunday school and worship. We have tried to teach our ...

The Book of Job teaches us volumes about what we are to believe about God and what God wants us to learn when he permits (does not cause) suffering.

Each time I read Psalm 8, I pleasantly recall my adolescent years when my family lived near a golf course.