Posts in category For the Heart

If you read our last post, I talked about recently having the privilege of giving a solid week to nothing but Bible reading. Going from cover to …

I like crazy challenges—the kind that are appealing to you specifically because they’re undoable. Like when I thought running 5 miles was epically long and then …

Everybody loves a good story, and Scripture has some of the best. Try to read through the story of Esther without laughing at the ironies. …

John 17 might be the least explored peak of all the Bible’s grand vistas. And for good reason: the high priestly prayer is marvelously interwoven. …

Imagine for a moment, as painful as it might seem, that you’ve been jailed inside a maximum security prison. Even after several months of unimaginable …

Love is not free. Genuinely caring for someone requires a payment. Energy. Time. Money. Emotions. The list continues. Sometimes we pay the cost without thinking, …

Life moves fast. Too fast. The feeling started when we pulled out our annual Christmas pictures going back to when we got married. It’s only …

Is Christmas the happiest time of the year? No, it’s even better than that. Christ’s coming provides the very possibility of joy year-round.

Few people know that Ben Franklin, the consummate writer, inventor and politician, descended from Puritans—his grandfather was a Baptist missionary to the Indians and his father …

I was proud of my initial reaction. I don’t think I hesitated more than few seconds before I asked the surgeon, “What do we need to do?” in a tone that implied – I’m ready, let’s get busy. And the bravado lasted all the way through the end-of-the-season soccer party I was hosting later that evening.

That’s when the mental assault began.