A curious idea about mothers hides in the quirks of translation for Proverbs 1:8. The sophisticated cultural wisdom of the ancient...

When the young man first felt the beauty of his first love, he found that his heart roared like the flames of a raging fire who’s smoke...

To be zealous means to be full of zeal. And to be full of zeal means to be driven by an overwhelmingly strong desire. Zeal is a strong...

The ancient Hebrew people struggled to forge out a living in the arid lands of the middle east. The region is known for its deserts, and...

This week I started a miraculous process. I prepared some soil in a pot, and I buried a seed in it. I then watered it and placed it...

When Abraham was 75-years-old, God told him to leave his home country, and go to a place that would be revealed to him. He didn’t give...

A terrible prophecy of end times destruction leaps out at the reader from the lines of Matthew 24:37-39.  It is there that we find a grim...

Roughly 60 active wars smolder, burn, or rage across the earth as I pen this Reflections on a Wednesday night in the second week of...

The currents and eddies of prophecy rush past us and around us like a swift moving river every day. Those of us who are “in the know”...

You are far more likely to be hurt by someone you love than by someone you consider your enemy.  Some reasons for this are obvious. Your...

The intimacy of marriage is the pinnacle experience of human-to-human relationships. Because humanity does not continue without that...

In his teaching on the demands of discipleship, Jesus compares them to the obligations of builders and warrior kings.  He says that a...

When Paul was still calling himself Saul, and before he met Jesus, he was a hater of Christians and an accomplice to murder. One of the...

Love is a freaky word.  It represents a weird quirk of human language in that it occupies the status of both noun and verb. Love is both...

You may think that you are at war with your boss, or your sibling, or your neighbor, or even a political party. But you really aren’t....

Right after Jesus gifts us with the Beatitudes from his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-11) and shows us the many counterintuitive ways...

Paul gives us an impossible theological command in Ephesians 5. He prepares us for that command in chapter four, where he tells us to...

When we say that someone is gifted, we mean so much more than that such person has been given trivial gifts intended for frivolous...

You know a ripe fruit when you see it.  It glows or shines with a vibrant color. It looks delicious, plump, ample, and desirable.  A ripe...

“You’ve been in the military,” I remember the man saying to me as we briefly conversed. I had never met him prior to our convergence....