I volunteer to speak in Sunday evening worship services for residents of a nearby healthcare facility. Preparing a fifteen-
minute sermon can be challenging. The message must be 
concise and easily understood...

We all know how hard it is to accept criticism, especially when we’re fully convinced that we’re in the right. When we get back that best-written paper from our professor, we...

Recently, I was struggling with feelings of uncertainty and a lack of direction; in general I wasn’t sure how I felt. My 
uncertainties were frustrating and affected nearly everything 
I did....

I was alone in a foreign country, on an overnight stopover after a busy three weeks of preaching and teaching, and I 
had once again watched TV pornography. No one will...

Three-and-a-half hours had elapsed as my sister’s friends and family waited in the crowded hospital lounge. We were relieved when the physician made her way toward us. With concern in her...

As I was walking home, I saw three young girls who looked confused. They asked me, “Sister, do you want to cross the road?” I replied, “Oh, no, I’m waiting for...

As a former water-utilities instructor traveling throughout West Texas, I’ve seen drought many times — up close and 
personal. To me, drought is scarier than almost any other 
natural disaster. When...

In today’s reading, we find a man confronted with 
bad news: he has been struck by a painful and incurable 
disease. The effects of 
leprosy (now called Hansen’s Disease) are 
visible...

My father was a pastor in another state and truly devoted to the church. He had diabetes and was insulin dependent. One day, after visiting him, I prayed that God would...

Every day we are required to make choices: when to 
get up, what to eat, how to approach the day. Many of 
our choices are major 
decisions about what road we...