Selections from 2 Samuel 13-18 2 Samuel 18:33 The king was shaken. He went up to the...
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but...
1 Thessalonians 3:1-13 (NIV) “So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in...
This remarkable passage not only teaches us compassion and hope for the obsessed and depressed, the cutters and crack-crazed, but also the...
Absalom’s name meant "son of peace," but his life was anything but that.
Just about every commentary on Ephesians labels 5:22-33 something like “Instructions for Marriage,” and for good reason. This passage focuses on the...
When Jesus was asked by one of the Jewish theologians which was the greatest commandment of all, he began by quoting a crucial passage from the Jewish law.
“If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.”
The speed and amount of data coming at us on our computers, laptops, and cellphones, and soon through our glasses and watches, is startling.
Celebrities don't make the biggest impact on our lives—the people close to us do.
“Do you knit?” I asked my friend Stacey, who sat beside me at a table near our sons’ fine arts classes. I...
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Task switching may be an inherent part of our fast-paced, plugged-in world, but we can still make time each week, or even each day, to slow down, reduce the volume, and focus on...
Once again, the blunt honesty of the biblical text commands our attention. Isaac and Rebekah had twin sons, Esau and Jacob. While...
Although we are focusing on God’s call to work, work is only one element of life. God calls us to belong to Christ in every element of our lives. Colossians 3:17 Whatever you...
Adam's and Eve’s decisions stretch all the way to the modern workplace.
Genesis 4 details the first murder when Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of angry jealousy. Both brothers bring the fruit of their work as offerings to God. Cain is a...
After increasing tension with his father-in-law and a business separation in which both men acted less than admirably, Jacob left Laban. Having...
The fifth commandment says that we must respect the most basic authority among human beings, that of parents for children. To put...
Esther was a woman who thought she had no influence over her husband or over matters of importance. Yet a desperate situation...
In a series of songs, the text describes the marriage of the man and woman and their coming together. The woman yearns...
