I was asked recently to speak at the FiftyForward Center in College Grove. Here’s the CliffsNotes version of how I summed up the last five years of these weekly columns and hearing the voice of God: ...

At 7 years old, Abel knew the importance of a relationship with Jesus and longed to take his faith a step further. If I look hard enough, I can find God anywhere. That sunrise coming up, I can see Him ...

Too many fall into the trap of ignoring our doubts until they become overwhelming, or never subjecting our doubts to the same ...

This beautiful verse from Psalm 27 floats into my mind’s eye every Sunday when I arrive in church (less harried than I used to be, now that my children are grown!) and sink onto the kneeler for a ...

Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses' hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face ...

"While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." It has now been three weeks since completing my ...

In dark and harrowing times, there’s a dread that comes from hearing a phone ring. In the course of one year, my family struggled through relational catastrophes, chronic illness, and the death of ...

God is present in the "dark corners" of local communities and in people's lives, Pope Francis said. "His presence reveals itself precisely in the faces marked by suffering and where degradation seems ...

Have you ever been caught in a standstill with God? When faced with an important decision, most Christians turn to God for direction, and when we don’t receive a clear-cut answer, sometimes we mistake ...

As Christians, it’s easy to get caught up in the election hype year after year. We far too easily believe the propaganda insisting that this election is the most important thing happening in our world ...