I’ll never forget the first time I told Candy that I loved her. I was 20 years old and she was 19. We were sitting side by side in my rust-colored, rust-covered Plymouth in the parking lot of a fine dining establishment called Donut Land. Mustering up my courage, I looked her in the eyes […]
“A farmer went out to sow his seed . . .” (Luke 8:5a). Christians are called to share their faith with others. The fields in which we sow the gospel are varied. Not all soil is the same. Jesus’ parable of the sower reminds us that in spite of the condition of the various grounds, […]
Forty-seven-year-old David Asprey, founder and CEO of Bulletproof coffee, wants to live to be 180. He’s invested a million dollars in extensive stem cell treatments and plans to spend several million more to become a centenarian. He’s confident that science will get him to his goal. Sometimes we Christians put our confidence in the wrong […]
Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon are known as “the prison epistles” because they were written from prison (either Caesarea or Rome, Acts 24-26 or 28). Ephesians is known as “the queen of the prison epistles.” It was written by Paul as a circular letter, meant to be read and distributed among churches in the Asia […]
The longer I live, the more I understand Job’s lament that “man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). Sadness flares up regularly, and I encounter a lot of it in my daily work. After more than 40 years in the ministry, I am accustomed to walking through seasons of […]
