“Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness.” Psalm 29:2 “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!” Psalm 95:6 “Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.”...

Tonight as I took my pugs out for their nightly walk, I couldn’t help gazing at the moon. It was a brightly-glowing perfect half-circle, so vivid against the deep blue sky. And it reminded me of the children’s book The Moon is Always Round by Jonathan Gibson. In the...

He ministered to millions of people in his lifetime, sometimes preaching up to ten times a week. He wrote countless books, commentaries, poems, and hymns, with over 3,500 of his sermons recorded and bound in books. He built an orphanage and founded a college. He...

It’s fun to watch a toddler explore the world. This weekend I watched my one-and-a-half-year-old grandson examine the workings of tinker toys, experiment with stacking and unstacking cups, and collect roly polies. His vocabulary is exploding and he loves pointing out...

“You just have to take a leap of faith!” That’s what people say. You won’t get anywhere unless you jump out and take a risk! But what really is a “leap of faith?” What if we leap, and there is nothing there to catch us? What if we jump and then fall to our doom? ...

“Jesus died on the cross for you. If you accept Him into your heart, you will be saved from your sins.” I don’t know how many times I heard this message growing up. Through many a Sunday School class, youth group lesson, camp session, and other church events, these...

“This too shall pass.”  This has always been one of my dad’s favorite sayings. It was something he liked to remind us when our favorite team lost, if we were feeling sick, or when one of our kids were going through the terrible twos. And he was right—in whatever...

“Be holy, for I am holy.” These words are repeatedly spoken throughout the book of Leviticus from God to His people. It seems like such a daunting command. To be holy – that seems completely unachievable. I picture some perfect saint with a halo over his head who...

Why didn’t you answer my prayer? I asked God this week. Then I realized He did answer my prayer. He said no. No is a very hard answer to receive from God. But I found some comfort from the words of St. Augustine in his work City of God, as he wrangles with the subject...

I was walking out the door of my classroom Friday when a thought popped in my head. I wonder if that book I need to read for class Monday is on my shelf? I went over to look, and sure enough, it was there. Happy (and a bit amazed) that I had realized it at the last...