Happy New Year’s Eve! Tomorrow, we welcome in a new calendar, a new day, and a new season. 2018 is ending and 2019 is about to begin. At...

As I have pondered the Christmas story this week, the idea that keeps coming to my mind is this: In one day, everything can change....

“This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while...

“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby...

With Christmas right around the corner, I’ll be sharing some of my childhood traditions with you today. Some traditions are easy to spot....

“You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most...

“All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will...

On Monday, I shared how Jesus overcame rejection (see the post here). That topic and Jesus’ example in that area are especially...

“Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia Grove. He instructed them, ‘Scout out the land on the other...

Every person is born with an inherent need for acceptance. When we are rejected, it wounds us at our core. Rejection is a knife that...

“‘Tell everyone to sit down,’ Jesus said. So they all sat down on the grassy slopes. (The men alone numbered about 5,000.) Then Jesus...

“And Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, because he loved him as he loved himself. Jonathan sealed the pact by taking off his robe...

Imagine a lake surrounded by a forest. The water is still and calm, steadily quiet. As the wind moves the trees, the reflection on the...

I was born in Arizona, but around the time I turned 7, my family moved to Maryland. We found a house in a town called Westminster and...

“Loyalty.” There’s a certain ring to that word, isn’t there? But what does it look like? What does it mean to live in loyalty? There are...

Everyone knows what failure feels like. There are many reasons why people fail. Sometimes, it's because of outside circumstances and...

Several months ago, a friend asked me, "If you had the chance to start your life over and rewrite it, would you take it?" I thought about...

God has a way of picking people the world would never think to choose. The Bible is full of characters that we would deem...

Humility is, in some ways, a complicated concept. Like a crystal, there are several different angles and faces to it. Unfortunately, the...