A reader recently asked me how I succeeded in believing the Bible. I invited her to approach it as a quest for truth.

I’m a gadget lover. The next new, handy dandy, ingenious device is always on my want list. Do I need this stuff? Um, no. Will I have to adjust my budget because of acquiring it, and then dust it forever? Ugh, yes. This year I'm taking a new path, away from covetousness and toward contentment.

Does Jesus seem elusive to you? He’s your Savior, and you’re eternally grateful to be His. But getting even a tentative grip on His humanity as well as His magnificence…this is not so easy. Jesus Manifesto, Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ, is just what you want to read.

What if Jeroboam’s wife had believed God? She made a choice no mother would make, and the only explanation is profound unbelief. But what if she had believed...?

A while back, my husband had cause to visit a local high school for an appointment with its principal. He was shocked at the amount of skin on display as he walked through the halls. It's a challenge to live chastely in today's world, especially for our teens. How can we help them?

A dear friend of mine has double pneumonia. A dear friend of yours has cancer, or diabetes, or a child in jail, or a marriage on the rocks. We ask God to heal them and help them, of course. But let me suggest that if we stop there, we are barely scratching the surface of praying for one another.

Slavery was everywhere in the world the Israelites knew, as it is today. Jesus stepped into our world as a humble servant, meeting our need at great personal cost. God desires that we follow His example, being at once sons and daughters of the King of Kings, and servants who gladly do His bidding.

Yesterday I cruised the magazine racks at my local supermarket. Even this brief survey of magazine cover articles revealed appalling things about the state of human beings in 21st century America. Namely, we love our stuff and we love ourselves, to a depth that is not okay for followers of Jesus.

In Him we live and move and have our being...If that doesn’t amount to being the meaning of everything, I don’t know what possibly could. But read on for more facets of this truth.

Our town is hurting. Mill and business closures have put many out of a job. Is my husband’s job next? I wonder, with a faint frisson of panic. Then I read about Zimbabwe, where the unemployment rate is 95%. The only bright spot there is the church. How do they keep their troubles in perspective?