I’m full. It’s what we sometimes say at the dinner table when someone offers us another helping of food. It means we have had enough to eat, or it could mean that we would rather not eat anymore of what was served. We can be full in the wrong way,...

Gideon got a visitation, a compliment, and a mission. And, he really wasn’t ready for any of these things. Still, God transformed him into one of the true faith heroes of the Bible. His story falls in the midst of the book of Judges, a series of stories that relate...

“For unto us a child is born; for unto us a son is given. …” These words from the beginning of Isaiah 9:6 describe for us the nature of Jesus. He was both a child born and a son given. There is mystery in the Scriptures; all throughout them we...

In talking about Himself, Jesus used the story of Jonah to illustrate His place in this world. He told those seeking a sign from Him that the only sign they would get would be the sign of the prophet Jonah: “…An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and...

Jesus came small. Too small for some. His arrival to the earth was discovered to those whose hearts were open to something beyond themselves, to people who were paying attention to detail, to some who were just doing their jobs. It is interesting to me that in coming to earth,...

I can remember the hush that characterized the traditional church in which I was raised. Weekly, our family attended the services and participated in what was a serious, solemn, and predicable program. The name of Christ was mentioned often and together the attendees recited the ancient Creed that dated to...

By appearances, Samson was a man powerfully touched by God. The book of Judges relates to us the life of Samson and paints a conflicted portrait of this Hebrew “hero.” He single-handedly  slaughtered 1,000 Philistine soldiers with a jawbone, he tore a lion apart with his bare hands, and he...

What made the devil do it? How did a being so wonderfully made come to despise his station and standing in the design of God? Why did he turn away from the work given to him? The Bible provides detail about the being first known as Lucifer, now called Satan....

A crisis can bring out the best and worst in men, or it can bring out the best men. Philip the deacon represents a case in point. His way of service among the earliest believers marked him as man of faith and of character. He was propelled into leadership as...

Paul records something of a prayer in Ephesians 3. He longs for the followers of Christ to understand the greatness of God and to take this reality to heart. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in...