The verse quoted above sounds romantic when it is read at a wedding ceremony, but when it came to packing up and following my husband to a new city, it struck...

Some say that happiness is what we make it. The more time I spend with a certain friend, the more I’m convinced that’s true. My friend was a successful businessman. Then...

Just before our church’s Christmas celebration, my phone rang. I didn’t recognize the number, so I did not answer the phone. I only sent a text message to the caller, asking...

At the end of our Christmas Eve service, each person lights the candle of the next person in the pew, symbolically sharing the light of Christ. It is a moving sight...

While I was taking my nine-year-old son to Bible class, we encountered a woman going in the opposite direction. As we passed, she greeted him with, “Good morning, Houston.” To help...

It was the fourth Sunday night of Advent. We heard the wind whistling around the building as the congregation stood passing the flame from candle to candle in the stillness of...

Job was one of the most upright men in the Bible, but in the face of unbearable trials, he cursed the day he was born and begged God for death. God...

It had been a long, cold, and wet day of touring in Israel. I had been jostled by the crowds at the Church of the Nativity. I had shivered in the...

In Luke 10:2, Jesus compared the task of sharing the gospel with the work of farming. He told the disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” This comparison...

As a junior in high school, I am often swamped with work. Tests, projects, papers, and homework quickly pile up. Long ago I decided to stop procrastinating, so I work late...