What does God expect me to do? What is my ministry? How can I best serve God and others? We will probably never see in advance all of how...

Power to Live Eternally Something inside us isn’t satisfied with life between the dashes of our tombstones. It yearns for more. For more...

We naturally long for significance, love, and appreciation. We want others to remember us after we are gone. We want our little lives to...

I don’t write a to-do list anymore, but I clearly remember the pleasure of crossing out completed items. Doing so reliably produced a...

I have two observation gears. Most of the time, I am in the 10th percentile of being observant about what’s happening around me. On the other hand, I can be in the 95th percentile, but usually not for long. During the last five years, I have attended the same local church. A few months ago, someone referred to the pictures on the glass walls in the rear of the sanctuary. I didn’t know they were there for five years! Apart from the Holy Spirit’s opening our eyes, we can’t see

The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament—Part Four completes our consideration of the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. Through a...

In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit rests on and empowers people to accomplish God’s purposes. Isaiah predicts a whole new dimension of...

In the New Testament, the Holy Spirit lives within God’s people. In the Old Testament, He came upon them for some specific purpose. This...

I heard about the Holy Spirit as a youth, but didn’t understand much about Him. I didn’t know His role in living for Jesus. I was like an...

It takes considerable effort to do many things well. Malcolm Gladwell developed the 10,000-hour rule. He believes people spending 10,000...

Wilma Rudolph was a sickly child who contracted polio at age five. She couldn’t walk without a brace, and doctors told her she never...

Word streams can elevate others, like moving air lifts a Boeing 747’s wings. Winston Churchill’s words fortified Great Britain to stand...

From our vantage point on Mount Stubbornness' Peak, we look down on all who try to shape our lives to their specifications. They don’t...

Grow Your Faith Before I pick ripe tomatoes, I must spend weeks fertilizing, watering, and weeding my tomato plants. Likewise, we are...

Signs of Growing Faith In the soil in plastic cups in mid-March, I plant tiny tomato seeds. They germinate and grow under lights in my...

How God Responds to Faith A rheostat changes the flow of electric current by increasing or decreasing resistance to its flow. That...

Faith Comes from God Where does faith originate? Do our hearts generate it? Is it some innate instinct that turns us toward something...

Faith occupies a preeminent place in the Bible. Without it, pleasing God is impossible (Hebrews 11:6). Exploring faith’s dimensions helps...

Strained relationships with others stress me. A fellow pastor was upset with me about fifteen years ago. He didn’t tell me, but others...

The Hopi are Native Americans who live mostly in Arizona. At ten years old, children are taught how Hopi spiritual life relates to their...