Post tagged with Bible
  • Faith: The Moment of Surrender

    March 29th, 200910:08 PM ET
    My Mom and grandmother always made sure I had a fantastic lunch every day in elementary school. Roast beef, turkey, peanut butter and jelly, and even leftover meatloaf were all regulars in my lunch bag. Sometimes a friend at my table forgot his lunch and if his family didn't drop it off, our teachers would cajole us to share with him. My family al...
  • Tilling, Sowing, and Fertilizing Scripture

    March 19th, 200911:23 PM ET
    The fields in my southern Vermont valley are still damp from the March snow melt. Streams running down the sides of mountains remain swollen, and the Battenkill River licks over its banks as it rushes toward New York state. As the ground thaws over the coming month it will soon become possible to turn the earth. With a few consecutive days of suns...
  • The Greatest Temptation: "Losing" Our Faith

    March 18th, 200912:44 AM ET
    My father is an atheist, so I still remember having no idea what the Bible was, let alone that my first name appeared in it so many times. As a teenager, however, I started reading God's Word from cover to cover, and before college I had memorized nearly 100 pages of Scripture. I've read through the Bible dozens of times. And I've discovered that ...
  • Losing Everything

    March 03rd, 200907:01 PM ET
    Have you ever lost someone near or dear to you? I lost someone when I was eleven. My dad and mom and brother and two sisters and I were near Snoqualmie Pass, about fifty miles east of Seattle. Waiting in line near the top of mountain slope was a girl about my age with a new red circular saucer. Compared to my black smelly inner tube, it was high ...
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Jesus talked about no faith, little faith, faith, growing faith, more faith, much faith, which kind do you have right now?