If you have spent time around new Christians, you have seen how eager so many are to share their faith. Christ’s love has flooded their stories. They cannot wait to tell...

Naaman’s head must fill with expectations as he approaches the prophet Elisha’s house. Finally, he can be cured, he hopes. We imagine that Naaman has dreamt of this day for so...

Naaman finds himself in a set of helpless circumstances. This commander in the army of the King of Aram aches with a terrible disease, leprosy, for which there was no cure....

As with the prophet Elijah, the time rapidly approaches for Jesus’ return to heaven. He focuses on Jerusalem, where he knows he will pay the ultimate price to love his own,...

In Galatians 5, Paul contrasts the “works of the flesh” with the “fruit of the Spirit.” Between the two is a chasm as great and wide as the divide of the...

It’s Friday. The weekend beckons. We have free time to enjoy and to worship. Paul writes to the Galatians, “For freedom Christ has set us free.” Freedom not only for the...

I’ve unearthed a nugget of gold in the mine of Psalm 16. It is twenty-four carat and priceless. Interested? Of course you are! Join me in reading verse 8: “I keep...

Such a reassuring psalm, isn’t it? When King David cries out for safekeeping, he knows where his security lies: “Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.” David knows...

Elijah and Elisha are out walking one day, talking with each other. But it is hardly a normal day. Fire breaks out. Fire from the Lord—a chariot and horses from heaven....

Change is in the air. As Elijah’s long ministry draws to a close, he offers us some good guidance. Knowing his time is short, what does he do? Puzzlingly, he tells...