God is looking for ministry amateurs. This should be an encouragement to anyone wanting to participate in the Great Commission. The word amateur comes from the Latin word meaning “lover.” Amateurs are not people who necessarily lack skill or training; …
I was having a talk with my three-week-old son the other day. I asked him, “How’s life going?” He smiled and said, “Well Dad, I’ve been thinking. I’m really enjoying my life now. I can sleep as long as I …
Queen Esther is an iconic figure in Biblical literature. Her story demonstrates the way that God places us in situations to orchestrate His plans. Here are 5 facts about the story of Esther that you may have never heard before. …
“A thing must be loved before it is loveable,” Chesterton wrote.[i] He said this was the great theme of Beauty and the Beast—a story that is magical, not because a beautiful princess gets kissed (after all, beautiful women are kissed …
The end of another hard day: You plop down into a comfortable chair, and it feels good. Your Bible is there, handy, so you open it at the bookmark. After reading over the first few sentences a couple of times, …
The men and women we help spiritually will inevitably learn standards for living through what they see in us. Jesus saw to it that his disciples learned his way of living with God and man. He recognized that it was …
Many of us know the feeling: Our world seems to be falling apart. Familiar sources of security crumble to dust. Long-enjoyed relationships suddenly evaporate. Assumptions which underlie our daily confidence turn hollow and false. David experienced such a time when …
We get caught up in so many conversations that truthfully don’t really matter. Discussions about topics that in the moment seem urgent yet days, even hours later, appear trivial, fleeting. The other day, while visiting with a friend, they made …
God invites us to live with him—an invitation David accepted seriously, as he expressed in Psalm Twenty-seven. Let’s focus particularly on verse four: One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the …
Simba is a “lost” lion. If you haven’t seen the Disney film about a lion who has lost track of who he really is, go find it, stream it, download it, whatever—and watch it. Simba is a lion cub, the …