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 …

In Paris on Friday night, a coordinated attack of ISIS terrorists took 129 innocent lives into eternity and injured hundreds. The web of socio-political entanglements leading …

There are lots of ways to assess who we are as a culture. One of my favorite is to walk into a Walmart. Big, wide …

I have a confession to make. Sometimes I use commentaries during my personal devotions. That probably marks me as a theolo-geek. As would trying to …

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.

If I fancied myself an expert on family devotions, the fantasy couldn’t last longer than 24 hours. Because every evening my children happily remind me …

My friend nudged me. “Hey! Check this out!” He could hardly contain his laughter until I viewed the meme. It pictured several hundred ISIS members …