by Ivan Mesa A glance through history reveals many men who kept journals: Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Madison, Captain Cook, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan. Some notable Christians include Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Andrew Bonar, David Brainerd and, in our own day, John...

by Preston Hagaman Work. To some this word is dirty, connoting toilsome labor and difficulty. Many simply dislike the subject and long for a life of leisure and ease where work is no longer required. I recently attended a dinner where I listened to a group of recent college graduates bemoan the difficulties and hardships of...

by Kyle Worley Far too often, congregants leave their church gatherings discouraged, thinking, “If only the pastor knew what it was like to work with her/him.  How can I trust what he says about how the gospel shapes the way I work at my job?  He works at a church…” While there is a certain...

by Kyle Worley As darkness begins to set on Minas Tirith, Gandalf stands with Pippin at his side and in the face of a fierce enemy begins to “laugh suddenly…putting his arm about the hobbit’s shoulders, and gazing out of the window. Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own,...