Spiritual Life Archives

LaMar Boschman, who almost 30 years ago helped usher in the current style of contemporary Christian music, is still promoting the positives of...

We live in a day when people are out to please themselves. But what about pleasing God? Let's honestly ask ourselves: should we put a real emphasis...

Why do we sometimes find it so easy to run from the presence of the Lord? What excuse do we use in order to avoid spending time with the Lord? What...

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, wait ... it's Jesus! At least that’s what some Christians are seeing in the long-anticipated Superman Returns,...

God wants you to move on toward the future He has planned for you. It’s a future filled with hope – but to get there, you’ve got to turn your focus...

In this installment of her series "Ah-Ha! Moments from the Bible," Eva Marie Everson asks, where were you when you first heard the Song of the...

Doctrine is under attack again (what else is new?) in the Christian church. Among the vital doctrines onset from numerous sources today is the...

I don't know about you but I struggle sometimes with having to choose to either sit at Jesus' feet or do His work. At the time, both seem to be...

In Exodus 20, the Israelites are commanded to "not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in...

How can you die to live, labor to rest, or give to receive? The paradoxes Jesus presents bring you face-to-face with the fact that you can’t know...

When our Lord commanded His followers to give, it wasn't just for the sake of the recipient.

Father's Day is usually a powerful reminder about social norms, traditions, and yes, prejudice. We see just how uncomfortable parts of the church...

When Daddy hugged me, nothing in the world could possibly go wrong. Everything in life was as ideal as I wanted it to be. As God would have it, the...

For some, Joseph, stepfather of Jesus, is no more than a biographical footnote in His life. But if we look a little deeper, we realize that the...

Too many men - including professing Christians - express their role as "father" in terms of financial provider. But children are not looking for...