Job — it was the book I was told to read first. That’s what Kitty Garcia, a fervent, faithful grandmother, told me as she handed me a fresh Bible. It was modern translation, a paperback paraphrased edition, as I was told after I read through it in a couple weeks....

“In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. …” (Isaiah 30:15). Think of Job. Ultimately, his story is about how he knew God and came to know Him better. Here’s someone who suffered tremendous loss and pain in spite of doing everything he was supposed to do. He lived in...

Peter was a marked man, marked by the devil himself. Hell viewed this fisherman as something of a soft target. Peter struggled with consistency as he walked beside the Savior of the world. Jesus met Peter, we read in John 1, because his brother Andrew, a faithful disciple of John...

Talking to God and letting Him to talk to us is what our lives are meant to be about. We just get really confused about how to do this. It seems like such a stretch for us to talk to Him. Our perceptions of the glorious, almighty Creator intimidate us....