God expects us to honor Him with our bodies and resources. They are gifts from Him.   They are also our gifts to Him in gratitude for...

In the 1940s, Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-born novelist, collected butterflies and moths while staying with James Laughlin in Utah. While...

In July 1994, I traveled to Bear Meadows in Centre County, Pennsylvania. I went to pick high-bush blueberries.   They were growing in a...

My grandson and I killed about 2,000 of them in 2022. No, not minutes playing video games—spotted lanternflies.   They were first...

Someone could accurately describe us knowing only what we count. What we count and why reveal our priorities.   Our priorities also...

Mark 16:1-20 describes your unfinished work and Jesus’ finished work. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome purchased...

The baby is crying. The kids are fighting. The telephone’s battery dies. The food is boiling over. You burn your finger on the pan—all...

You work against resistance to exercise your muscles. You exercise your faith by facing and conquering trials and difficulties.   Trials...

We do not begin life with an abundance of patience. When babies are wet, hungry, or tired, they cry. Patient endurance is not part of the...

Leaders are often highly esteemed by some, while others mercilessly lambast them. It happens in the church.   It happened to me. Many...

I volunteered with Campus Crusade for Christ many years ago on Penn State’s main campus. When weekly evangelistic outreaches were held, I...

While still in Persia, Nehemiah did not realize how hard rebuilding Jerusalem’s wall would be. Once he started, problems sprouted like...

Favoritism is the act of elevating people or groups at the expense of others. It is as widespread as weeds. It is a problem in the...

What did you do last week that only a Christian would do? The goal of the Christian life is to love as Jesus did. That means actively,...

In the U.S., slightly over 50 percent of people donate (31%) or regift (21%) gifts they do not like. 1 Jesse Campbell suggests seven...

Some Christians believe that Jesus emphasizes what to do and not do more than love. That is, He expects only regular church attendance,...

We need a complete spiritual overhaul to serve others because we love them as we love ourselves. We need a clean, morally pure heart ...

We have stolen God’s honor and glory. “ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever....

He was old-fashioned. His neighbors used tractors and other modern machinery to squeeze income from their land. He refused.   He still...

Entitled people think they deserve all the material things their parents spent a lifetime accumulating. They feel put upon when others...