Cuba is a country in distress. In 2014, Fox News pegged entry level nursing salaries—a high-paying job in the United States—at $25 a month. Doctors, well-paid by Cuban standards, pull down over ...
The title of this piece might ring a bell. It goes with a 1993 comedy, and that somehow seems appropriate to our Christian walk.
Dazed and confused. Unsure how to apply the teachings in the Word to ...
Try this:
Put on your sunglasses at night.
What?!? You want me to do what?
You do something similar all the time. Have you gotten up at night to get a drink from the kitchen and made it there and ...
In the midst of everyday living, sometimes it’s hard to stay focused on what’s really important. Our children need our time, but it’s the job that pays the bills. The yard needs to be mowed, ...
What’s got you wrapped up tight?
What’s the cocoon that has you blinded, the handcuffs that restrict your movement, the locked door that keeps you trapped?
What keeps you so down that you ...
Becoming a Christian is easy.
After all, salvation comes by grace. We ask and it is ours.
However, the life we lead afterwards can be challenging to get right. What does God expect from the changed ...
Under Texas law, anyone who enters a private home without express permission and who poses a dire threat to those inside loses all rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...
Read more: A Spiritual Texas
If you’ve ever lived by a stream or a river, you know what to expect after a heavy rain.
The stream will begin to rise, the water will churn over the rocks and obstructions along the way, and then ...
Jacob is a biblical icon, the grandson of the earliest foundation stone of three religions, and a patriarch of the Christian faith in his own right. God placed so much value on Jacob that he renamed ...
Read more: The Payback We Deserve
What slippery slope are you on?
What financial landslide is carrying you to devastation? The poorhouse, even?
How deep do the cracks in your relationship with your spouse run? Have they reached the ...
What’s best about a walk in the park?
Having someone to share our experience with.
Look, a bluebird. Come smell this flower. Oh, isn’t that the prettiest view?
Couples with a lifetime of ...
The chrysalis.
It’s the place of change for the butterfly, the rigid, constricting encumbrance that holds the caterpillar in while it becomes what God intends it to be.
A cage, if you will, but ...
It is a parent’s duty to raise up a child in the way that he should go, so that he will not depart from it. However, it is a grandparent’s right to spoil the child and send the tyke home to Mom ...
Read more: A Grandparent’s Duty