I feel for Miriam, the older sister of Moses. She’ll never be able to live down the moment in time when she claimed that she and their brother Aaron could hear from God as much as Moses did: “Has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” God quickly allowed…

When my husband was learning to drive in the U.K. (on the “wrong side” of narrow, winding roads), he needed to work unusually hard to keep the vehicle in the center of the lane. My job as passenger (on the “wrong side” of the car) was to provide announcements (with gentleness and not screaming panic)…

The woman who lavishly and boldly poured fragrant oil over the divine Savior (Matthew 26:6-13) approached Him so closely and affectionately that it can almost feel uncomfortable or even sacrilegious to think about. The disciples criticized her for it then, and believers today can wonder about such “extreme” devotion to Christ. As I’ve had to…

Maybe like me you’ve wondered how it could be possible to obey the command to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). In fact, it seems so unrealistic that I’ve always assumed Paul had to mean something else. And to some extent he did. As Matthew Henry explains in his commentary, it doesn’t mean we do…

I find it so helpful to know that my every action is either in obedience or disobedience to the one true God (Deuteronomy 28). Not wanting to be disobedient to God helps motivate me to the right decisions when my emotions would have me choose otherwise. And, He promises I will be blessed for my…

Summer’s coming to an end and you’re about to transition yet again to another season of school and work. Swirling around you is pressure to perform and temptation to consume. The constant working and consuming cycle is taunting you and like the writer of Ecclesiastes you’re tempted to say, “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”…

“I’ll pray for you.” How many times have you said it and then forgotten? It’s a thing. Or how many times have you fallen asleep or drifted way off in thought mid-prayer?  You’re in good company. Having imperfect prayer habits is a shortcoming every Christian has to face and address. But like every other godly…

Maybe it seems simple and straightforward to call yourself a Christian. Your family may be Christian and so you go to church, worship, and believe in God. Some of you attend Christian school and hear a lot about Christianity there. Christmas and Easter help you better understand His divine birth and resurrection and why Christians believe…

You have good reasons to be skeptical of people who are in a position of authority, but who may not be trustworthy. And it’s wise of you to request systems in authority to have checks and balances so authority is not misused. It’s even purposive that the self-protective human response to historical abuses of authority…