Some years ago, a U.S. Naval officer was aboard a ship engaged in a training exercise involving battleships performing maneuvers during several days of heavy weather. On one particularly foggy night he was stationed on the bridge of the ship, as was the commanding...

When I was a young father on a warm summer’s night, I called for my twin boys, who were about a year-old, to come out on the front porch. I wanted to show them a huge toad that I had spied on our front steps. Ironically, the boys were wearing night-shirts that...

Jesus had come home. He had been on a triumphant journey around the surrounding countryside, granting sight to the blind, healing the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising the paralytics, and challenging religious authorities as he preached penetrating messages and...

When we catch our first glimpse of John Mark, we may have seen all there is to see. Scholars have conjectured that the young man mentioned in Mark 14:51, who fled away naked into the night, was none other than John Mark. Scholars surmise that perhaps John Mark,...

Listen! Jesus says to his hearers. Listen! There once was a sower who went out to sow. However, this sower either had an impossibly high regard for the potency of these seeds, or he didn’t seem to care about what he was doing. This sower seems more like Mr. Magoo than...