It’s smiling at sales clerks and thanking them by name (if they are wearing a name tag). It’s asking a waitress how you can pray for her. It’s sewing a …
The Remedy: A Devotion on Isaiah 53:5
I don’t know what it is about soup, but when I get sick I lose my appetite for most things––except a bowl of hot soup, preferably chicken noodle. Maybe it’s the …
The Passover Lamb
At Israel’s first Passover, Moses commanded the people to select a lamb to sacrifice and apply its blood to the doorposts and lintels of the houses in which they dwelt …
No Good Thing: A Devotional on Psalm 84:11
It had happened before. A friend of a friend has a friend who is pregnant and thinking of adoption. When I got the email a year ago this week I …
The Right Choice: A Devotional on Matthew 16:26
Jim Elliot and his four companions Nate Saint, Roger Youdarian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming became known for their martyrdom in seeking to reach the Huaorani (then called Auca) people …
Unashamed of the Gospel
“What does ‘11Six’ mean?” coworkers would often ask me, pointing to the sticker on the order book in my apron. At the time, I was working as a server at …