My prayer list is full. At this very moment, I have so many friends and family members who are going through serious trials that it’s downright discouraging. Health problems, job loss, relationship issues, financial stress. You name it. So many who are hurting. So many who need my prayers. Yet, ...

Sean Gobin returned home from war, and found himself searching for the civilian buried deep inside his heart. The world as he knew it, which was once a familiar place, now became an unfamiliar territory. Sean wasn’t sure how to move forward or how to just be regular again. He ...

“Whew! I’m not as young as I used to be,” I panted after running down the hall after a three-year-old this morning. Today, I returned to the classroom as a teacher for the first time in over 20 years. What a challenge! In my younger years, I was a full ...

Dogs and cats are carnivores.  Their jaws are designed to go up and down.  They do not have the ability to “grind” their food with their molars.  They grab their prey, tear the flesh off, and then gulp it down.  Their digestive systems are short, designed to facilitate a quick ...

The interest of most teenagers today lies in music, fashion, and technological gadgets; not so much in helping others. The less than pleasant disposition and overall supercilious attitude of most young adults doesn’t help their reputation either. As a result, most people view the teen years as a time of ...

What does it really mean to wait for Jesus? I mean wait for Jesus! There is divine enablement and power in waiting. Remember Jesus waited in hell for three days and God delivered Him. Elijah waited for God in prayer and we know the result: “Seven times Elijah told him ...

Terms such as nail fungus, athlete’s foot, Candida, and yeast infections are familiar for most of us. According to the CDC, however, there are approximately 1.5 million species of fungi on Earth. Pathogenic (disease-causing) fungi number around 300. Some of the more common ones are listed here. Fungi produce a ...

“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”  Proverbs 13:20 (NIV) A friend from my school days posted something on Facebook last night about how life is too short to put up with fools.  It was pointed to the fact that we often ...

A friend of mine recently told me that she doesn’t like this website because it is controversial. What immediately came to mind is that there are too many Christians sitting in churches expecting everyone else to think and act like they do. I did not ask her whether she was ...

Don’t get me wrong–I love kids, but those ages 10 to 13 plagued by hormonal surges, a sordid home life, and a propensity to tune-out authority figures, light a fire under my prayer life.  So it was, when I walked into an inner-city school to substitute for the P.E. teacher, ...