Knowing the Creator

A tour bus along with several cars had stopped in front of the artist’s house. People wandered around pointing at the towering steel sculptures glinting in the sun, while their... Read More »

26,000 Gifts a Day

What do you do 18 times a minute, 1,080 times an hour, 25,920 times a day, yet rarely notice? The answer: You breathe. If you are 40 years old, you have already taken more than 378... Read More »

Sing Again

As part of a campaign called “Get America Singing . . . Again,” a group of music educators has published a list of forty-two songs that it believes Americans must... Read More »

Star Praises

The Hubble telescope has provided us with dramatic pictures of the farthest regions of the starry heavens. Photographs show clouds of interstellar hydrogen gas towering nearly 6... Read More »

In God’s Presence

As a farm boy in North Dakota, I often had a sense of awe when I looked at the sky on a clear day or when I listened to the rolling thunder of an approaching storm. God seemed so... Read More »

The Beauty of Belonging

The words of King Solomon’s bride, “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” (Song 6:3), beautifully portray the security of a husband and wife who know they... Read More »

God in the Thunderstorm

It had been a long Michigan winter and my three-year-old granddaughter had forgotten all about thunderstorms. So she was frightened one spring afternoon when the sky grew dark,... Read More »

Worship Service

The sign outside the church states, “Worship Service–Sunday at 11:00 a.m.” That ought to stop traffic. Passersby should take out their pens and jot the time down in... Read More »