“Honor your father and your mother.” (Exodus 20:12) Today is a big day in the life of mothers. Our country has celebrated Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May ever since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it as a national holiday in 1914. But that’s just part of the story about how one of our nation’s most coveted days began. Strangely, the rest of the story has been forgotten. I guess it has given way to all the commercialism that Mother’s Day now carries with it. Its founder […]

“That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:7) God’s grace is always sufficient, but it’s not always easy to recognize. Let me give you a real-life example. Thirteen years ago, my wife, Robbie, had basal cell carcinoma. It’s a harmless form of skin cancer, but you have to remove it, or it will just keep growing. Robbie had a small spot removed from her chin. About a year later, she noticed […]

“Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body…For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[a] and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:18,20) Thirty years ago, I had a friend who became so convicted about what his family was watching on television that he put it out in the street. When I asked him why, he told me it seemed to be just the right […]

“Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around, that the king said to Nathan the prophet, ‘See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains.’ Then Nathan said to the king, ‘Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.’” (2 Samuel 7:1-3) I love turning to Scripture in times of doubt and disappointment. My faith […]