Learning to Be Godly Leaders
05. March 2024
“Attention! At a close interval, dress right, dress! Ready two…Hand, Salute!” “On my honor, I will do my best to serve God and my ...
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Truffles in the Hoosier Heartland?
10. January 2024
When my wife, Debi, and I began attending a Reformed Presbyterian church 27 years ago, we noticed the culture there was, among other things, one where ...
Working in the Secular Field of Art as a Christian
22. November 2023
Inspiration My earliest memory of wanting to become an artist came when posing for the Pulitzer Prize winning artist, Aileen Ortlip Shea. At age ...
Shedding New Light
18. September 2023
We often tell people that we started Relight—our free web app for studying the Bible and Reformed theology—simply so that we could use it. ...
Planting Seeds in the Basement
22. May 2023
What Is This All About? Manchester (New Kensington, Pa.) RPC in Upper Burrell Township, just northeast of Pittsburgh, conducts a flea market on the ...
Is There Purpose in Sport?
13. March 2023
Recently I commented to my boys something like this: We could think of an infinite number of ways to take a ball of any shape and size and think of a ...
Breaking of Bread
16. January 2023
Heidi Goerner After our worship service, everyone is hungry for food as well as the spiritual opportunities to grow in Christ. Discussing the sermon, ...
Navigating Your Local Library
11. November 2022
Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” —C. S. Lewis, “Three ...
Trying to Find Value by Running Stupid-Far
12. September 2022
It’s dark. It’s Jan. 1 and it’s so cold. My thighs are burning. Forty-nine percent of me is screaming, Stop! And 51 percent of me sets its jaw ...
Thirsty Thursdays
09. May 2022
Have you read an entire book of the Bible in one sitting? (Third John doesn’t count.) When was the last time? If you’re like me, before I started ...
Practicing Stewardship
01. March 2022
I find it fascinating that, of all the commands God could have given first to Adam and Eve, He commanded them to rule over the earth. In the ...
How Can I Comfort the Grieving?
10. November 2021
Because it was well after midnight, the world’s busiest airport was basically deserted. The lack of the hustle and bustle at Chicago’s O’Hare ...
How Can I Be Useful in the Church?
08. September 2021
It is difficult to condense such a broad topic. I will focus on the practical, with this caution and reminder. In Revelation 2, the Ephesian ...
Christian Art in a Secular Culture
19. July 2021
The term “Christian art” for me, and I expect for many others, raises memories of walking into the Christian bookstore and seeing canvas prints of ...
Blessed with Children
14. May 2021
On a warm June day nearly 20 years ago, my husband, Sam, and I stood before our family and friends promising to love and cherish each other until ...
Giving Children the Scoop
04. March 2021
On Apr. 23, 1994, I woke up before the sun. It was Saturday morning, which meant it was the one day of the week I got to tag along with my dad on his ...
Virtual Wisdom
08. January 2021
“The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without ...
A Passport to Help Resolve Conflict
18. November 2020
I was sitting at a table with two other trained Christian conciliators listening to a room full of church leaders try to describe the situation at ...
Parenting Beyond the Lists
14. September 2020
As parents in the 21st Century, we get bombarded from all sides on how to raise our kids: “Do this, don’t do that.” In the secular world, it’s ...
Five Reasons to Reach Out
13. July 2020
“Dessert tonight is a riddle,” I told the college students as they came in the door. We had made cutout cookies of teddy bears, rocking ...