“Ears that hear and eyes that see— the Lord has made them both.” (Proverbs 20:12) What is real and what is not? All my school years,...

Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time....

“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21) Because of my dad’s example growing up, I developed disciplines that would...

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread." ~ John Muir How does it happen that some things remain engraved on a person’s mind and heart...

“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” ~...

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” (Romans 7:15). “No, don’t go home yet... Let me...

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘ Honor your father and mother’ —which is the first commandment with a...

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ...Then God saw everything...

“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24). By...

"How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!" (Psalm 133:1) Is there any urge stronger than the human desire to...

“...I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me” (Psalm 51:5, NLT). There are people who don’t agree with the above...

"…Do not lie. Do not deceive one another” (Lev. 19:11). Children are not purely innocent. At least I know I wasn’t. I know I had a bad...

“I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). While...

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities —his eternal power and divine nature— have been clearly seen, being...

“..put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.” David (Psalm 131:3) One of my earliest memories, though somewhat foggy now, is of...