If I asked you, “What Old Testament passage is quoted the most in the New Testament?”—what would you guess? Maybe, “Honor your father and mother”? Or, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength”? Would…
By May Hastings Nottage Written in 1901, this work of poetry celebrates the cherished memories of a grown woman tenderly recalling from childhood the voice of her father in prayer. In the silence that falls on my spiritWhen the clamor…
Anne Brontë 1820 –1849 Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth,Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way, And faint before the truth. It is the only road Unto the realms of joy;But he who seeks that blest…
Jesus is generous and kind, and He doesn’t want us to be foolish in our interactions with other people. He has redeemed us from the shackles of sin and its isolating curse and placed us in a community of…
Sometimes a simple question can prove profoundly helpful. I remember watching the movie Bridge of Spies several years ago and listening to this dialogue between Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan and his defendant Rudolf Abel after what Donovan perceived as…
I penned this poem some years ago when I was overseas and struggling with discouragement as I realized how much time I was missing with my dear friends back in the States. Time and again Jesus’ eternal perspective has given…
HUSBAND I, ___________, take thee, ___________, to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death…
EXECUTION: We have no record of anyone surviving a full Roman crucifixion. And not only that we have five ancient historical sources outside the New Testament that confirm and corroborate the execution of Jesus on the cross. EARLY ACCOUNTS: Many…
Palm Sunday is celebrated by Christians all over the world as the day that Jesus fulfilled prophecy of Zechariah 9:9 “Behold your King is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey,…
“Lust is not the result of an overactive sex drive; it is not a biological phenomenon or the by-product of our glands. If it were, then it could be satisfied with a sexual experience, like a glass of water quenches…