"For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory" (Psalm 32:7). While this verse is comforting, the faithful today know that life is complicated, ...

Visions and dreams can both be of God. In essence they are the same ... revelations to the Lord's created humans of his ways, whats, wheres, whens, whences and whose. The main difference is resolved ...

Promises made, promises kept is often heard in election campaigning.  When true, it is refreshing.  At times such promises are only partially kept, but not so with the God of the universe.  When ...

Life’s most challenging seasons often arrive unexpectedly, leaving people feeling overwhelmed, abandoned, and questioning their faith. During these periods of intense struggle, uncertainty, and pain, ...

Christians have every reason to reduce light pollution. It’s hard not to be sentimental about a Northern Hemisphere December, with its snow (or in the American South, where I live, its relative cool), ...

We care and talk about what we are most passionate about in life. Some people are passionate about their careers. Some people are passionate about sports. Some people are passionate about money. Some ...

Facing rising inflation, escalating fuel costs and the likely shortages of necessities may be hard, but it need not be scary. Our country has faced scarcity before. We weathered the shortages during ...

Christmas is so familiar that it is easy to miss how utterly unlike every other religious claim it truly is. The story is ...

“Bloody Weekend” filled the headlines, and defined videos, and images of brutal violence. After two years of planning, what transpired against the Jewish people in their homeland was carried out by ...

Christmas did not begin in Bethlehem. If we imagine the story starting only with Mary, Joseph, shepherds, and a manger, we ...

Bobby Gruenewald, founder and chief executive officer of YouVersion, said the Old Testament verse has been the Bible Verse of the Year four out of the last six years, an indication of the enduring ...