The church of Jesus Christ is filled with people whose names rarely appear in headlines, conference brochures, or history books. These folks labor faithfully, pray fervently, shepherd diligently, and often do so with…
Category: Devotionals
The God Who Loses: How the cross redefines power in a world obsessed with winning
Power is one of the most contested words in our cultural vocabulary. We debate who has it, who abuses it, who deserves it, and who is denied it. We measure it in…
Prayer is Essential for Effective Gospel Outreach
When I retired, and we moved to Harrisburg three years ago, the Lord led us to purchase a home right next door to an elementary school. Desiring to be a witness to…
Enough?
I don’t know about you, but I hate the word “enough”. It enters the room and almost immediately we hear a crack of lightning as insecurity looms overhead like a thundercloud. We…
Six Little Words: a Precious God Moment
The same Friday we got discharged from the hospital after my son Micah’s magnet adventure (he swallowed one), we packed up the family van and headed to visit our dear friends in…
The Word Became Flesh
It is never easy to find the right Christmas card – that is, if you even still send them. I understand the popularity of using family picture cards and we always enjoy…
The Village Idiot
The constable on his nightly rounds found Tomfool, the village idiot, savagely beating his head against the stone monument in the town square with the engraved letters of the Ten Commandments. “What…
In Memory of Her: A Communion Meditation
Matthew and Mark both report an anointing of Jesus at Bethany during the last week before His death. From Matthew’s Gospel (26ff), we read: Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the…
The Word Goes to Utah: Precious God Moments
Tracting is a time honored, well-intentioned form of evangelistic outreach, whose time may arguably have come and gone. Tracts may not have always fallen rapidly to the ground, but the flood of…
Sandcastles
You see a lot of things when you walk along a crowded beach: a toddler walking funny with a soaked diaper, seagulls fighting over french fries, ladies in itsy-bitsy bikinis, and old…