Proverbs 18:21 states that death and life reside in the power of the tongue. We too often live below our privileges in expressing tender words in human relationships, words that impart the quickening power of the life of God to one another. I once had the opportunity of riding in...

My shattering had stamped out any lingering self-effort in me; even the sense of nerves stirring had vanished. Inertia bound me. I became the man under the bed covers on a cold winter morning, paralyzed. I concluded, “The next transpiration of events would take place toward me, but never from...

Song of Solomon falls in a particularly important place in our Bibles. It comes nearly right in the middle of things, just after Ecclesiastes and right before Isaiah and the prophetic books. Ecclesiastes has as its watchword “vanity” or emptiness. Ecclesiastes expresses questions and doubts and puzzling observations.   Song...