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...
Time to Take a Devotional Break: Taking God at His Word
My father was a man of his word and a man of God’s Word. If dad made a promise, he kept it....
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...