"In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5:16, NIV2)One at a time, they filed nervously up to the speaker's podium. With shaky voices, they began their list of thank yous . . ....
"But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me." Job 30:26-27Years ago, after completing high school, a Christian girl managed to break into the work...
While in Belgium last summer, my family and I traveled to Veurne to see the famed, yearly procession of the Penitents. As Veurne is nowhere near the town where we were staying, we ended up traveling almost to the end of the coastal tram line and then taking a bus to...
We arrived late in Caen, France, but after putting our suitcases into our hotel, we decided to take a walk through the old city. Not too far from where we were staying was a huge fortress, constructed around 1060, by William the Conqueror. We climbed up onto the...
Matthew 18:6 – But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. (NIV)It was very hot outside, and I had just come in from doing...
This week I met a ten-year old girl who expressed her goal in life in no uncertain terms: "I want to be a star."I was pretty sure she didn't mean that she wanted to become a celestial body shining through the night. No, she wanted people to notice her.As these ideas...
"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'" John 8:12During World War II an aircraft carrier was out in the North Atlantic.Six pilots took off from the carrier to...