Spiritual Life Archives

Fifty-four years ago the U.S. Congress established an annual day of prayer, and in 1988 designated that day should occur on the first Thursday of...

Do you feel like something is always wrong, that you can't seem to "get it right" in your relationship with God? Then you probably have a diseased...

Healing is God’s choice, and so is the timing of that choice and the method in which healing takes place. When we’re struggling with something or...

What do you think draws us to gossip? What is so important about knowing everyone else’s secrets? Does it make us feel superior to speak ill of...

I am pretty good at figuring out what Jesus would say to others. But the question I need to be asking is what Jesus would say to me. That is where...

Life is good on the mountaintops of celebration. But no matter how much we’d like to spend our lives up there, we need to walk through the valleys...

Will you go to the ends of the earth to meet God? It is easy to say yes, we would give up something we haven't yet been asked to sacrifice. Or that...

In the garden of Gethsemane just outside Jerusalem, Jesus knew exactly what was coming, and he was praying. His heart was almost unable to support...

Most leadership books and seminars focus on leader behavior and try to improve leadership style and methods. They attempt to change leadership from...

Despite the sheer folly and unreasonableness of pride, it manifests its stubborn presence in countless ways within all of us. Even the disciples of...

The cross and the resurrection stand as the pivotal events at the heart of the Christian faith. If Christ did not die in our place, then we are...

In my opinion, most of them are good, because they signal the winding down of the work week and a chance to relax or change course, if only for a...

His body is being beaten. His blood is being spilled. His heart is being broken. For me... And it causes me to tremble.

According to some commentators, the publication of The Gospel of Judas will force a complete reformulation of Christianity and our understanding of...

In the last installment of Ah-ha Moments in the Bible, we took a look at Jesus as the Morning Light. Let’s now look at the second definition within...