The prisoners also shared whatever they could remember from favorite hymns, singing to encourage themselves and those in nearby cells.

What habits did your parents instill in you that have benefited you into adulthood and as a parent or grandparent? For me, a big one is...

As I write this, I’m sitting in a favorite Airbnb we often use when visiting family near Kansas City, processing thoughts and reading...

Those prayers are often recorded in my little devotional notebook, and I also occasionally go back and review...

In the Bible, the writer of Ecclesiastes says there is “nothing new under the sun” (1:9, NIV). That seems to be especially true regarding...

The book of Acts tells us much about how to share the gospel—building cross-cultural relationships, encouraging new believers, relying on...

My high school memories are generally good—I was reasonably well-liked, and my grades qualified me to be in the National Honor Society,...

After Jesus ascended to heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to empower his followers to begin sharing the Gospel.

Sometimes a Proverb seems particularly appropriate for my frame of mind or something I’m going through—or a whole series of somethings....

A recent venture into the wisdom of Proverbs landed me in chapter 26, which opens with several statements about fools and how fools...

Often, circumstances or memories combine with my daily devotions or something from a sermon or online teaching to send me down some real...

First, Jehoshaphat turned to God; he called the people to a fast, and he assembled them to collectively seek the Lord and remember God’s...

Unless you’re one of the few (lucky?) people who manage to totally avoid being online or hearing news, it’s been hard to miss the...

That habit got me through some rough years, and it continues to be daily sustenance now. Let’s face it, this world is broken...

It’s been a minute since I spent much time with my farming relatives, but the concept of “fallow” fields gave me a couple of things to think

The person I’m thinking of wasn’t Saul himself, later renamed Paul, but rather, Ananias. Not the one who famously lied to the apostles...

At that point, Daniel was already seeing the fulfilment of earlier biblical prophecy concerning Israel’s Babylonian captivity as foretold...

Recently, my Sunday Proverbs reading coincided with receiving information about the Loaves and Fishes meal program in Stone County,...

And I pray for “we, the people,” to keep praying just as hard after November 5 as we did leading up to it.

Wait, what? Pray for whom? Even if my non-preferred candidate won? And what’s that business about a quiet and peaceable life?