I desire to do your will, O God; your law is within my heart.  There are times in our lives when we find it difficult to do the right thing. Sometimes this is because the circumstance is convoluted and complex. Sometimes we lack the knowledge, wisdom, or foresight to be able to make the right…

The answers are as follows, “Nothing,” “No one,” “He will,” “No one,” “No one,” “No one,” and “No.” Is it not an interesting situation in which to be; that is, to have the answers without the questions? For if life teaches us anything, it teaches that as time marches on, the questions increasingly outnumber the…

     [For the record, I wrote this a few years back for the church website. Going back through it—and after some minor edits, of course—I thought it appropriate for the current state of things -Ricky]      Form over function. Style over substance. These are phrases commonly used to frame what may fairly be…

Billions of people were gathered before the Throne of God. Some nearer the front grew belligerent and talked heatedly. “How can God judge us?!” they asked. God is in heaven where all is beauty and light. “Yes, what does He know about suffering?!” snapped a cynical woman, rolling back her sleeve to reveal a tattooed…

     The kingdom of God was manifested perfectly in the person and work of the man Jesus Christ. “For in him, all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,” Paul wrote in Colossians 1:19. As Jesus lived on earth, every thought, action, and word was a kingdom thought, a kingdom action, and a…