"In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem." --2 Samuel 11:1 (NIV) I once heard about a teacher who was grading third-grade science tests. One of [...]

Hearing a clatter one morning, I looked down and gasped. It was the electric razor my wife had bought me for Christmas, and it was in pieces on the floor. I knew she had gone to some trouble to purchase it, and I wondered what to do. Fortunately, she wasn't home. That was a great [...]

Tiptoeing down stairs so I wouldn't wake up the rest of the house, I felt like a kid at Christmas, checking to see if Santa had come yet. Unlike my friend Jack, morning was my favorite part of the day. I loved to revel in its quietness, as the package of a new day was [...]

"Then he said to the disciples, 'Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who send me.'" --Luke 10:16 (NLT) Most of us who live in America don’t know what it means to be shunned for Christ, and [...]

I once heard a pastor who jokingly said, "Hurry up and get a back seat, because soon they'll all be gone." In contrast, one fashion designer went on record as saying that if you don't sit in the first three rows of an event, you might as well stay home. The front row is a [...]

If you were to talk to me about famine, I must admit that since I can get a snack out of the fridge any time I want, the idea of having nothing to eat was rather foreign to me. I tried to get my head around it, but it just wasn't happening. That's why last [...]