“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:17) The Internet now guarantees that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are no longer days. They’re seasons. Nonetheless, I’d like to take a brief pause from Christmas buying to explore an important spiritual truth about Christmas. It may very well change the way we think about the Christmas season. Christmas is a season when we often […]

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:17) The Internet now guarantees that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are no longer days. They’re seasons. Nonetheless, I’d like to take a brief pause from Christmas buying to explore an important spiritual truth about Christmas. It may very well change the way we think about the Christmas season. Christmas is a season when we often […]

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalms 37:4) There are two people I never thought I would meet on this side of Heaven: An Internet reader from a community in which I wasn’t known, and one of the individuals who had something to do with a voice I heard that led to my salvation. Let me explain. My Internet ministry has exploded over the last ten years. My website, www.devotions.com, is one of world’s most popular websites for […]

For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5) (Most of my newspaper editors do not like for me to capitalize “He” as I did in the above verse. They often change it. I hope not in this case because what follows emphasizes the importance of the capital “H” in He.) All of us wonder from time to time if God really cares about what’s going on in our lives. Why? Because there are those occasions in life when “life” seems to […]