It began with my daughter Sarah’s interest in learning more about her ethnic heritage. There is a lot of buzz these days about Ancestry.com, as well as several popular shows on cable TV featuring adoptees and others searching for long-lost loved ones, and/or their...
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands…” (Isaiah 49:15-16). Ancient Hebrew...
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 This is described as “the greatest offer ever made by the greatest person who ever lived.” We...
It happened again. The senseless, evil school shooting that took 17 lives last month in Florida. Since the shocking shootout at Columbine High School’s massacre of 15 teens in Colorado almost 19 years ago, such slaughter has become an all-too-familiar scene in American schools....
“For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). The first priority is our will. And this is greater than our want. We often want things and for situations to be a certain...