A Joyful Noise: More Than Merry Christmas
I wish I could remember the day I learned that not everyone celebrated a merry Christmas.
I remember Dad...
Time to Take a Devotional Break: Wasting the Waiting
Today’s world finds waiting to be a serious problem. Society has become so accustomed to instant messages, video streaming, fast food, and...
A Joyful Noise: So Thankful
As colleague Mark Miller has lamented (in between digressions), the Christmas season tends to steal the holiday spotlight from its meeker, milder...
A Joyful Noise: TRIUMPHANT LOVE
This Thursday, 54 years ago, Mom and Dad walked down an aisle, and verbally, they declared, “I do.”
Their...
Time to Take a Devotional Break: Go to Church or be the Church
Ah, the joys of social media, allowing us to connect with loved ones while bringing unwanted attention from businesses, legitimate and otherwise....
A Joyful Noise: Praise for the Pastor
When the Apostle Paul wrote to his protégé, Timothy, he told him to count those who “labor in word and doctrine” worthy...
Time For a Devotional Break: Exiled, Not Homeless
Anyone watching the news this week could not avoid photos and videos depicting horrific scenes of war. Following the initial devastation were...
A Joyful Noise: Gasping for Grace
In his first epistle to Timothy, Paul encourages him to show rather brutal grace.
Officially, the veteran evangelist identifies...
A Joyful Noise: The Anguish of Anger
I pity a person I’ve never met.
I don’t know his—or her—real name; he or she uses the name...
A Joyful Noise: A Legacy Worth Leaving
As a child, Corrie Ten Boom went with her mother to visit a woman who had just lost her baby, and the...