New Year

Did you know the songs we sing in church are a form of confession? The words to the songs are supposed to be our “confessing” what we […]

I read a headline this morning that quipped, “New year, same issues.” Is that your first significant challenge of 2018? Are you dragging into the gift of […]

Our capacity to experience change in the New Year we’ve now entered depends on our willingness to take hold of the freedom we have in Christ and […]

Truth matters, and starting a New Year with a fresh commitment to truth is just a wise thing to do. R. Scott Richards also believed truth matters, […]

As we sit on the precipice of a New Year, many people (particularly leaders) have already loaded into their 2019 calendar a few “big events,” happenings that […]

Planning for a New Year for some means dreaming new or great dreams, planning big adventures, and crafting strategies for grand accomplishments. At least, we tend to […]

We usually look at the dawning of January 1 as the gift of a New Year. But there may be a message wrapped in that gift that […]

In my book, “Talking With God,” which is a collection of writings on the topic of prayer, I note on more than one occasion that our prayers […]

God’s gift of time to us is one of the most precious gifts He gives. An unidentified writer once took a spin at describing the value of […]