The trees lift their skeletal fingers heavenward, their royal robes in tatters hang upon them and inevitably drop to the ground. Soon...

He was the Almighty God, laid that night on a bed of straw and wrapped in swaddling clothes. He was the Bridegroom who would die for his...

“Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus…” – Romans 1:1 We often gloss over the first verse or two in each of the epistles. After all, it’s...

"Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all...

“Why that rushing around? Don’t tell me it’s activity: It’s confusion!” – Jose Escriva Our calendars, computers, and smartphones are...

“And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him. So shall my heavenly...

We think of indoctrination or brainwashing as a horrible, negative event. And, oftentimes, it is. But in many circumstances,...

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Indeed, has God said,...

Have you ever prayed – with despair wrenching your gut, doubt tearing at your mind, discouragement dragging you down, desperation...

It’s easy to get tied in mental knots when we are in pain. Sometimes we assume that God causes all our pain, or that all pain is the...