The Joy of Gifts

Everything I understand about gifts indicates they are to be enjoyed as well as employed.

Talk About the Weather

I have a friend who radiates joy, not because his life is easy, but because he habitually recognizes God's presence in the midst of all human suffering, ...

Still His Child

As much as I enjoy talking, laughing, shopping or playing thought-provoking games with my two teens, I have to admit that sometimes I miss when they were ...

Bored with a Boring God?

I do not know why so much of mainline Protestantism has become a joyless religion. Perhaps we are more impressed by the problems of the world than by ...

Fear and Joy Go Together

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

Living in Reality

Just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... Would that I could get as aroused about experiencing God in life as these modern writers are aroused at just ...

Worship Is a Time to Celebrate

I used to be the chaplain for the Astros and the Oilers when I was in Houston, Texas. After I'd do a chapel, they'd give me tickets. One time ...

Don't Imprison Joy

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sunrise.

The Deepest Joy

Surely there can be no deeper joy than that of saving souls.

Smiling at the Fever

I am burning with a fever, and have a violent cold; but Christ's presence makes me smile at pain; and the fire of his love burns up all fevers whatsoever. ...