Jesus began His ministry with forty-day prayer and fasting in the wilderness and ended His ministry with prayer in an olive grove. In between, He spent countless times and hours praying, usually in the wee morning hour.  By doing that He gave us a model to emulate; He, the Son of God, prayed, s...

We haven’t ended one war, another war has begun, involving more countries and impacting livelihood far greater than the other war. Starting with gasoline, prices start to go up, adding another layer of pressure to many families who are already struggling.  We can only pray that these wars wil...

The Church has set aside forty-six days before Easter, which starts on Ash Wednesday, as a time to remember the suffering of Christ. We do not know what happened to Jesus a year before His arrest and crucifixion.  From the Gospel of John, we know what happened to Him six days before His arrest ...

God used a number of ways to bring Lee Strobel, a former atheist, and a Yale-trained-lawyer turned into a legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, to believe not only in the existence of God as the creator of the universe therein, but also in Jesus as his personal savior. One of them that he remembers [...

Dr. James Elder Cumming, a 19th century British speaker and author, says, “in almost every case, the beginning of new blessing is a new revelation of a character of God—more beautiful, more wonderful, more precious.” O how true!  It is certainly true in the life of Lingkan Mangundap, a fr...

Mary Stevenson was a woman too familiar with pain. At age 6 she lost her mother, leaving her father to raise all his eight children by himself during the time of the Great Depression, one of the most difficult periods of American history, where millions lost their jobs and plunged into poverty. ...

The late Ruth Graham, wife of Evangelist Billy Graham, was known to be a collector of quotations.  One of them that became one of her favorites was one by George MacDonald, the Scottish pastor, writer, and mentor to C. S. Lewis, “It’s only in Him that the soul has room.”  It’s only...

LA Times columnist, Mark Z. Barabak shares an interesting story of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader from Nevada who died four years ago. During his tenure as senator, Reid had a poor relationship with Jon Ralston, Nevada’s most prominent and highly esteemed political journalist. The r...

Being married to a musician exposes me not only to music but also musical artifacts, such as a plaque hanging on our kitchen wall that has this inscription on it, “Life is a song and love is the music.”  It is true, isn’t it?  As a song without music is incomplete, so is life with [&...

As we start the new year we might be asking, “What will I do?”  We might think about traveling or visiting friends and relatives or even going on a mission trip.  All of them are good; we should do them; but we do them with this in mind: In a bigger scheme, life is about […]...