Life can be unpredictable, difficult, and anxiety-producing. During times like this, and really at all times, we need to ask ourselves: “Where do I focus, and in whom do I place my faith?” It has been said, “We don’t know what the future holds, but we do know Who holds […]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This week we celebrate one day out of the year we call Thanksgiving Day. But God encourages us to be thankful always. Ephesians 5:20 says to “Always give thanks to God the Father for everything.” And I Thessalonians 5:18 tells us to “Give thanks in all circumstances, […]

I love this verse tucked away in 2 Chronicles 20:12. Jehoshaphat is facing a formidable foe and the odds are stacked heavily against him. He is outgunned and outmanned and about to be undone. And he says these words that grip me: “For we have no power to face this vast […]

Presidents come and presidents go but our prayer for them must be constant. Last week, Joe Biden became president-elect of the United States. As Christians, I want you to begin to pray for him earnestly as he’ll need it. Being president is a deeply challenging job in a deeply conflicted […]

This week is election day. It seems to me that our society is more fractured and conflicted than at any time in my lifetime. I was born in 1960 and, while I don’t really remember “the 60s” in real-time, I do know that the 60s were tumultuous. I’ve gone back […]