When you think of the world, do you consider it a playground or a battleground? When you wake up, do you immediately put on spiritual armor and prepare your heart and mind for action? Or do you check your social media, read news, turn on the television, or just get...

Recently we read in 1 John, “In this world we are like Jesus” (1 John 4:17b). The phrase stopped us. We looked at, chewed on, and meditated on “we are like Jesus.” It struck us as both a phrase of encouragement and a word of challenge. Who are you like? Am I showing...

In the midst of the coronavirus, we have loved seeing the tangible acts of kindness and hope. Our hearts swelled when we saw Italians singing from their balconies. Tears came to our eyes when cars in a hospital parking lot flickered their lights as they prayed...

How’s Your Perspective? In the midst of life’s challenges, we certainly can lose perspective. Lost in the details, we have at times seen very little purpose to some of our own family’s struggles. One night in the last year as we prayed, one of us laid out a long list...

If few people love to play the part of innkeeper at the Christmas play, then no one wants to play Herod! From our previous blog we looked at some misconceptions about the Bethlehem “innkeeper.” Perhaps we have been wrong about him! But regarding Herod, perhaps we do...

Some years back we were correcting our kids as they dragged their feet and moaned instead of promptly obeying. Then one of us boldly proclaimed, “Delayed obedience is disobedience!” It just rolled off the tongue so easily. Then it hit our ears also. …Selah… Uh-oh, how...

God wants his name and culture, his love and purposes to fill the earth, so he shares his heart with people. In Genesis 1 he commands people to multiply and fill the earth. Centuries later in the final chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus commissions the Church again to...

As a teenager, Reha chose life for her unborn child. Though young and alone, Reha bravely faced social stigma by completing her pregnancy as a single mom. “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death,...