Words of Life

In February 1943 a poster appeared on the walls of Westinghouse Electric to encourage women who'd been hired during the war effort. It was used only in-house and was gone after two weeks. The image of a muscular woman wearing a blue work shirt and red bandanna with the speech…

In the summer of 1896, twenty-five-year-old Orville Wright contracted typhoid fever. For several days he was in a near-death delirium. It would be an entire month before he could sit up in bed and several more weeks before he could get out of bed. And it may be the best…

In his famous Harvard commencement address, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West in our days."  We as Christians must turn that criticism on its head. It is imperative that fear of rejection, criticism, or loss…

In times of despair, we forget that we are heirs. In times of favor, we forget why we are heirs.  When life gets hard, or we're not performing like the Christian we feel we should be, we see ourselves at the beggar's table, hoping for a few scraps, thinking we…

I was having coffee by the beach one afternoon with a girlfriend who is an avid surfer. We were chatting about what it takes to confront our feelings and how the only way to is through. She got excited by the idea of dealing with emotions this way because she…

It's after dinner that I catch the replays on the news: footage of a tropical storm hitting hard in Haiti. Rain sheeting across a little, lithe Haitian boy running the wide-eyed and terrified, desperate for refuge from a storm bearing down. In the news clip, the shirtless kid grabs a…

The older I get, the more significant each election seems to be. When believers approach an election, we must first understand what must be done before we can identify who can best help do it. Perhaps as important as any time since our nation’s founding, those who believe in divine…

King Solomon is regarded in Christianity and Judaism as the wisest man to ever live. One story exemplifying his wisdom has become known as “The Judgment of Solomon.” In it, two women bring a case before him involving the custody of a newborn boy. According to the first woman, the…

Contrary to popular opinion there is a spiritual war going on right now. Those who mock that suggestion, thinking that spiritual reality is a myth reserved for the primitive mind, do so at their own peril. There is a devil, and he has schemes intended to defeat humans and deface God:  Finally,…

Prior to birth, his mother had settled into a life of childlessness, her sterility a popular topic of conversation among the locals. She and her husband had become accustomed to their quiet existence. The days and years clicked by with calm consistency. Until one day.  An angel shows up. Announces…