Time to Take a Devotional Break: The Unwanted Gift

It happens to all of us — we receive a gift we never requested, wanted, or imagined. Whether an item of clothing...

A Joyful Noise: Still Learning

I graduated from high school 25 years ago, and I graduated from Ball State University 20 years ago, and I made the...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Clean Stables

Until I married into a 4-H family during the summer of 1985, I had no idea what that organization involved. I had...

A Joyful Noise: When the Clouds Come

Someone please alert the authorities: I looked out my office window Friday morning, and I saw that somehow, the sky turned blue...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: When God Unexpectedly Shows up

If you are a living, breathing human being, I daresay you have felt disappointed by God at some point. Even if you...

Time for a Devotional Break: The Rest of the Story

Born in Oklahoma in 1918, this well-known figure spent much of his early adult life making radio commercials. Moving from Missouri to...

A Joyful Noise: A Saint’s Story

This Monday marks the birthday of one of the 20th centuries greatest heroes of the faith: Corrie Ten Boom.

Time to Take a Devotional Break: Your Best Life – But Later

YOUR BEST LIFE — BUT LATER A strange dichotomy is evident in our world.  On the...

A Joyful Noise: Looking for the King

In the 12th century, a German bishop introduced his world to Prester John, a “king and priest … who lives … in...

Time to Take a Devotional Break: 03-23-2024

VICTIM OR VICTOR? Society is filled with individuals who consider themselves victims. Nothing reveals this more than advertisements, signs,...