A Joyful Noise: A Time to Teach
Jose Gavarrete wanted to wince when the young man at the bar stuck a cigarette in the small hole left in his...
Marriage Tune-Up Weekend at Hope Missionary Church
“Who says working on your marriage has to feel like work?”
Marriage speakers Jeff & Debbie McElroy of Forever...
A Joyful Noise: Persecution Still Lives Part 2
At the beginning of each year, the organization Open Doors, which serves persecuted Christians worldwide, releases its...
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: Remembering the Forgotten
In a world where headlines and hashtags compete for Americans’ ever-shrinking attention spans, Mary Ngoshe might not matter anymore.
Time for a Devotional Break: What’s in Your Hand?
A well-known song from the 1960s extolled the virtue of everyone living their life MY WAY. Despite possible misunderstandings, the singer crooned...
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: Weeding the Heart
Whenever summer begins, I naturally think about the fall.
“Cursed is the ground for your sake … Both thorns...
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: Songs of the Season
In 1990, David Foster and Linda Thompson crafted their now-famous “grown-up Christmas list.”
And through the song they wrote,...