Our scripture offers clues as to how prayer can help us draw closer to God. The opening verse says, “The people were filled with expectation.” Life with God, a life of...

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn says that he tried prayer and it did not work. He put a shoebox under his bed and prayed that it be filled with gold. He awoke...

Is that it? As you reflect on the past year and look ahead to this new year, is this the question you raise? Is that it? Is that all there is?...

Is your career progressing as you’d like, or are you sensing a need for a change? Career, from the French word for racetrack, can serve us usefully. Wise career choices guide...

Ecclesiastes can depress us with its time to mourn, to weep, to die. The writer lists fourteen “opposites” in a few shortverses. All in all, they reflect twenty-eight facets of human...