But how? How does this "work"? What holds it together? Think, for example, about the existence of man. What is he composed of? Atoms...

All things have a beginning, right? Right? After all, I am here, but I didn't always exist. I am a child of my parents, who also...

Hard to fathom the idea of nothingness--that before there was creation, there was nothing, EXCEPT the personal, infinite God. This God...

I had a family joke a couple of decades ago. I promised my son that, if I had it long enough, I would will him my 1987 Subaru...

One thing that set Israel's God apart from all others wasn't that there was just one of them (in contrast to polytheistic religions), but...

Colossians 1:15-20 was the text we unpacked a bit in Sunday school yesterday. Taking the time to read it a phrase at a time and seeing...

Saturday morning, while relaxing and listening to bluegrass on Pandora radio, I remembered that I had committed to pray for a brother who...

Yes, yes I do! I can't remember where I read this years ago, but I found this true. There's a difference between having something to...

Yeah, I know it's been four months since I last posted anything on this site. You know how it is--good intentions and all that. Well,...

"Oh, that's not my job!" or "That's why we pay him." These are two common expressions made by the average church member when asked to...

A couple of days ago, I was stalking on my wife's Facebook page when I came across this quote from an Orthodox Christian: "We should try...

A couple of weeks ago, my younger daughter asked me to write some devotions for her. What else could I say but yes! Whenever anyone...

Actually, my birthday's not until August 28, but tomorrow IS my birthday. I will be 39 years old--in the faith. Thirty-nine years ago...

What you do when you have no restraints or when no one is looking is who you really are. We rejoice in such freedom, but we find that,...

Forty years ago, I became a fan of bluegrass music. The local country station had a bluegrass hour that I happened to come across one...

A busy week ahead, so this will be short. I was thinking (dangerous, I know) Sunday morning about, of all things communion trays. I...

Not what you're expecting! The title of one of Dallas Willard's books is "The Great Omission", dealing with the neglected part of the...

My fault, really. As I write, it's 1:22 am. It was a long day at work and, knowing that the condo in which I was working might not have...

"Father, thank for being so good to me. I know that sometimes you say "no" and I have a hard time accepting that. But if you will, I...

Not much you can do about your physical appearance, right? Oh I know, you can diet and exercise, but short of radical means (various...