Be careful, little eyes

TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED the news business in many ways. One of the most notable is how cell phones have made amateur journalists out of all of…

Days and moments

WHEN PARENTS DEDICATE their kids at our church, during the ceremony they are given a jar with 900 small stones–one to be removed each weekend before…

7 Signs of a Good Samaritan

WE ALL KNOW that the Good Samaritan is the model of godly neighborliness. But have you ever stopped to reflect on what exactly he did that…

Roadside reflections

SOME BIBLE STORIES are so familiar that we can miss the riches of what they have to tell—and teach—us. When we hear them, a well-worn Sunday…

The best of my year

ACCORDING TO A recent survey, the average American has $175 of unredeemed gift cards tucked away somewhere—a sum likely to increase at Christmas. But don’t worry,…

Herod’s holiday greeting

IF I WERE the handcrafting type, like my wife, I’d make you a personal Christmas card with a picture of King Herod on the front. A…

When More Leads to Less

BECAUSE HE IS good and kind, God doesn’t reveal a problem without providing a solution. In other words, no diagnosis without a cure as well. So,…

The lure of more

BECAUSE CHRISTIANS BELIEVE that the Bible is alive and speaks to us today, it’s sometimes possible to miss the context in which those words were originally…

Dying of embarrassment

WHEN YOU ARE handed ponchos as you take your front-row seats for a Blue Man Group show or a SeaWorld presentation, you have a pretty good…

Let’s!

FRIENDS WHO RECENTLY returned from an Alaskan cruise reminded me of the incredible extravagance of God. As they spoke about the amazingly beautiful things they had…