A widow marched to the offering box with all that she had, as we read in Mark 12. Just two mites were in her hand – all of the money she had to her name. A mite represented the smallest and least valuable of the coins in circulation during Jesus’...

A quirk of psyche Was Jesus ever sad? Isaiah 42:4 prophetically shows Him unfailing and un-discouraged, but, in chapter 53, He was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. He wept more than once prior to His agony — at the grave of his friend and on the overlook of...

There is intrigue, and there is compassion. There is the understanding that luggage carried into Haiti could hold an item to help an impoverished teenage orphan earn their own money for food: a staple gun, sewing supplies, a sewing machine, a wet-suit, an electric hair trimmer, a pot … When...

The Boy The other day I walked into town. It’s about a 20-minute walk. I like to walk into town because it’s a chance to be quiet. I can pray, or take some time to hash things out in my mind that have been troubling me. A couple minutes into my walk,...