"If today you hear [H]is voice, harden not your hearts" (Psalm 95). Today’s Psalm is one of those tunes that...

“Everyone is looking for you,” Simon and the Apostles tell Jesus in today’s Gospel. It’s still true. Everyone is looking...

I can picture myself in the synagogue, standing by the wall. I can see the man with the unclean spirit...

"This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:15). I wonder if the Kingdom...

There are phrases I've found myself uttering as I've moved through my young adult years: "Don't ask for that promotion;...

"He must increase; I must decrease" (John 3:30). What if my life is meant to be smaller, quieter, and slower?...

It was an average, dirty snow, Minnesotan late afternoon where the sun that had hid its head all day and...

It was my senior year of high school when the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl. Not much of a...

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear" (I John 4:17). This Scripture and I go...

We want to see justice in our world, but do we act and speak with justice in our corner? When...

Have you ever had an experience where you needed to test the spirits, and discern: Is this of God or...

So much of my prayer life craves the grandiose—the big, booming voice from the heavens or the wild winds that...

The bathroom counter is a minefield of Sparkle Crest toothpaste for the third time this week. Globs drip from the...

I wear a gold cross around my neck every day. I am aware of its presence just as others are...

I love telling stories about my dad. Like the time my family went tubing in the rapids, and he called...

"Who are you?" . . . "I am not the Christ" (John 1:20). When I first read these words uttered...

I kind of hate New Year's. First of all, I fall into a deep post-Christmas slump most years during this...