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Isaiah 6:1–4, 6 Seraphim are impressive beings! Can you imagine six-winged creatures so powerful the sound of their voices makes a building shake? I’ve been to rock concerts where the…

John 4  The men stopped talking and stared at the distance; a few of them looked at the ground. She was alone, and her hair was long and untied. She…

Ephesians 2:8–10  Recently, a story circulated on Facebook about pastor Steepek who allegedly went to his new church dressed as a homeless man. It told how everyone was unwelcoming and ignored…

Abram and his wife Sarai were childless. Sarai was 89 years old. What are the chances a woman unable to bear children throughout her entire life would bear a child at 89? But God had promised Abram and Sarai a baby 24 years earlier.

The kingdom of heaven is like a dandelion seed that a gardener planted in the garden; it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the most prolific of all flowers, spreading to cover many lawns, so that the grasshoppers in the neighbourhood can come and rest under the leaves.

God will use us in more ways than we can see or understand, as we allow his Holy Spirit to do his work, slowly carving and reshaping our lives and circumstances. We have an unmistakable part to play, yet the Lord will weave our life experiences together into his bigger kingdom purposes.

John 6:5–13  The other night, I asked two smart little boys if they could recall a story from the Bible where a child did a beautiful thing for Jesus. Their…

James 5:17, 1 Kings 18:16–19:18  Elijah was “a man just like us,” according to James 5:17. Yet, when I think of Elijah, I typically think of his daring feats atop…

Deuteronomy 33:12  As I write this article, my wife and I are eagerly anticipating the birth of our second child. As we schedule our days and weeks, it’s increasingly difficult…

Matthew 28:5–6 As a father of three children, aged seven and under, I love the lessons I learn by seeing life through my kids’ eyes. Such was the case when…

John 8:9-11 They had already finished when we rushed the room. But it didn’t matter. Everything was still in place and there was no question. John jumped up faster than…

For ancient mariners, there could hardly have been a more terror-inducing sound than the roar of waves breaking onto the shore, threatening destruction of the ship and death to all life aboard…

Ecclesiastes 5:18–19, 12:13 Sitting in front of a beachside condo, the couple in the video declared, “We live for our vacations. As soon as we get home from one vacation,…

When I was a child, I thought work was God’s curse on humanity. As I was forced to do my Saturday morning chores, I reflected more than once on how dumb Adam and Eve must have been to take that fruit. Wouldn’t it be better if all I had to do was lie in a hammock and listen to the wind blowing through the trees? I was already looking forward to what life would be like when I turned 65 and could retire.

I’ve never worked on a farm or in agriculture, but I know the key principle of the industry: everything needs water to grow. Very little thrives without it – plants, trees, even humans.