Lent is a time that is set aside to grow spiritually. I invite you to spend a few minutes during your week contemplating the following Six Steps that will bring…

Young Danny was praying at his mother’s knee. “If I should die before I wake … If I should die.…” “Go on, go on, Danny,” said his mother. “You know the rest of…

We live in an age of immediacy -- instant foods, instant winners with our lottery mentality, instant information in the computer world, instant gratification in the drug culture.  There is…

Kathleen Norris wrote a wonderful book called, Dakota. It is a book of meditation and devotion.  In another writing she talked about her spiritual pilgrimage. She said she was raised in…

When middle C is struck on the piano the piston of bones in your inner ear vibrates exactly 256 times a second.  Each day you think about 50,000 different thoughts.…

What if Christians lived out their lives in such a way others could not help but see it? What if Christians were so different that society became long-neck gawkers when…

When a child or an adult is baptized in the Catholic church and other Christian churches as well, the cross of Christ is traced on the baptized person’s forehead using…

It was Ash Wednesday. A woman who was sitting in a crowded church leaned over to the young man next to her and asked: "What is it that brings so many people out…

There was a Baptist pastor during the American Revolution named Peter Miller, who lived in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. He enjoyed the friendship of George Washington.  In Ephrata also lived Michael Wittman,…