Recall your toddler days' nifty doodles of cats and dogs, flowers and trees, sun and clouds? Our three-year-old grandchild habitually punctuates her nature doodlings with the sun shining at the corner of each drawing. Kids have this uncanny ability to discern God's...
Patiently waiting is one of the most difficult things we will ever have to do, but it is such a great evidence of real faith. Something that is very difficult to do. Hebrews 11 speaks of “Now faith.” Now—present tense. This kind of faith, the Scripture says, is the...
Any tragedy—great or small—forces us to acknowledge our humanity, and often that realization leaves us depressed or immobilized. But through difficulty or disaster, many turn to God; others turn on Him, blaming Him for the difficulty, accusing Him of failing to stop...
In the 1970s, inspired by the Good Samaritan parable, two Princeton University Behavioral Scientists, Professor John Darley, and Dr. Daniel Batson, experimented on prosocial behaviors. They embarked on a study of 40 students at the Princeton Theological Seminary....
What you love and what you hate reveals a great deal about your character. Why? Because simply put, you can’t be for something without being against its opposite. When you love your family, you stand in strong opposition to anything which would threaten it. Long ago...
“Payakap Nga!” Don’t you just feel oh-so-good each time someone approaches you and tells you this? Isn’t it so fulfilling to know that your ‘simple hug’ can make a person feel better and even make his day especially in times when this individual is feeling down? But...
Of all the Old Testament heroes I would someday like to meet, none has any more fascination for me than does David, the shepherd boy who became king. Though he was a warrior, this man had heart and compassion. Of all the thousands of individuals who are mentioned in...
Trouble…what does it mean? During his trials, Job said, “Man’s days are few and full of trouble.” We all run into trouble on some front. We sometimes handle trouble poorly because of our misguided expectation that “if God is for me and I am God’s child,” I will not...
"Then the LORD GOD MADE a WOMAN from the rib HE had taken out of the man , and HE brought her to the man" (Genesis 2:22). The word MADE literally is bana, which implies BEAUTY, DURABILITY, and STABILITY. The woman was never an afterthought. She was created as part of...
The headmaster of New College in Edinburgh, Scotland used to ask the blessing at the noon meal by praying, "O Thou who has endowed us with so many gifts, now grant to us just one more—a grateful heart." If there is one universal human failure, it is our habit of...