Barney Can't Compete

In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (1/17/98) Judy Zmerold writes:

Three-year-old Katie was taken to her pediatrician during a recent bout with the flu. As ...

Truly Owning the Name

The title of Christian is a reproach to us if we turn our selves away from him after whom we are named. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like Allah ...

Seeing Through His Eyes

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting ...

God Is with Us

Emmanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ...

Change of Heart

Good will toward all men is a result of the invasion of the super-natural! A state of good intention with "heartiness and cheerful consent" ...

Seeking a Living Faith

Some time ago I was biking in Michigan and met another biker who, like myself, was a professor of theology. In the course of our conversation by the side ...

William Carey's Epitaph

When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey, speak about Dr. Carey's Savior.

The Gift of Me

When He comes
At midnight,
He does not
Ask a tree;
A creche,
A star
A candle—
Only me.

Let Them No Longer See Me

Lord, shine in me and so be in me that all with whom I come in contact may know thy presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me but only ...

Jesus in My Heart

My four-year-old granddaughter, Amanda, went to the doctor's office with a fever. The doctor looked in her ears and said, "Who's in there? ...