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...

My mother’s first cousin Ruth and Arthur, her brother, were genetically more similar to her than most first cousins. They were the...

Prejudice is pride putting others in their imagined inferior place . An event in Acts 11 ran counter to centuries of Jewish prejudice...

Pride is like an intertwined bundle of oak catkins. It punches way above its weight. Its negative impact is far-reaching.   It clogs our...

When I was a graduate student, I told a fellow student I was a teetotaler. Word got around. The managers of my housing unit had a...

About 50 years ago, I had a life goals conversation with another person.   It was short because we did not have any. We were not...

Nehemiah was eight hundred miles from the problems in Jerusalem. He had obligations to King Artaxerxes, who did not care about the...

I could not see anything for three days. A racquetball hit my left eye in 1972 and caused internal bleeding and temporary blindness. The...

Among Christians, God’s word is highly honored, little read, less understood, and rarely applied. You must hear that word with open ears....