God’s Word – His truth and unshakable principles – can be denied and defied but never destroyed. His truth is as eternal as He is. They are never actually broken because they stand firm. If we set aside the commands of God, we suffer the consequences. Our defiance doesn’t negate…
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I hate flying. The physics of flight are both amazing and terrifying. But if you ask me, it defies logic. The Boeing 777-300, like the one I recently took from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, can carry over 500 passengers. It’s over 200 feet long and weighs in the range…
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As I embrace this life of meaning, living fully with the remaining days I am given, my laundry and dishes pile high. My in-box sits unattended. Dinner ranges from toaster waffles to pot roast. But no matter the cleanliness or the menu, my greatest joys are laughter and conversation, whether…
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Happy Mother’s Day to the greatest source of inspiration on earth! Our youngest child, Robin Rochelle Robison Turner, wrote the following devotional for the book Women at the Well. Our beautiful daughter has joined the great host of witnesses in Heaven in the glorious presence of the Lord Jesus. Everywhere she…
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I got mild whiplash that day on the playground when my best friend Barbara looked me square in the eye and said, "I wish I was you!" We were both five years old; I did not know her comment was grammatically incorrect (my mother would have said Barbara was using…
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Throughout Western history, Christianity has endured seasons when our faith should have been forever defeated, if not obliterated. The Church of Jesus Christ should have had a funeral with the fall of the Roman Empire, the spread of Islamic armies, the Enlightenment, political upheaval in Europe, or the philosophical attacks…
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“So what do you think?” came the question from my pregnant friend and her husband as we stood together on a wet, bleak hill in the English countryside. Shivering and trying to avoid being blown away by the relentless, gale-force winds, my husband and I took in the full scale…
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Paul speaks about suffering from his first-hand experience. In 2 Corinthians 11:24-27, he recounts: Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a…
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The airplane cabin was almost completely quiet, except for the occasional clicking of the flight attendant’s heels, responding to a passenger's call for hot tea or a pillow. Night had fallen across the vast expanse of sky somewhere between London and Johannesburg – at whatever point along that trajectory we…
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The fable of the wise servant and the philosopher has an important lesson for us. Xanthus, the philosopher, sent his faithful servant Aesop and told him to bring the best food he could find for a sumptuous banquet. Aesop went to the market and brought back tongues from all kinds…
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