My mother taught me to write Thank You notes. She would give me a simple card on which to write and station me at a card table set up for the purpose. I was in the living room beneath a small window on the side of the house. Blue sky...
Someone has well said, “There is no such thing as a Christian Scrooge.” We may occasionally identify someone who claims to be a Christian and is a Scrooge. But when Christ transforms lives, the Spirit motivates us to give generously. The gospel opens our hearts and hands, our mouths and...
Have you ever gone to visit somewhere you’d never been before? My family just took a trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. We had thirteen people altogether, and most of us had never been to this location. For me, there is excitement in some of the unknown aspects of...
If you’re like me, you grew up under the impression that the God of the Old Testament and Jesus of the New Testament were not very much alike. OT God was angry and steadily slinging thou shalt not’s at His ill-behaved children. Conversely, NT Jesus was much nicer, talked a...
Anticipation is an often-overlooked aspect of personal faith in Jesus. Anticipation is that excitement that bubbles within you when you are a child. The Christmas holidays were always a season to which I looked forward while growing up. There were the obvious reasons for joy in the Christmas holidays: taking...
