The first Easter morning didn’t start out well for the disciples. The one thing they knew for sure, when they woke up that day, was that Jesus was dead. The precious Master and Friend they had followed for three years, hanging on His every word, was gone— having been brutally executed on... read more »

An Amazon.com message board comment caught my attention recently. “I have a zillion books in my library,” Michele said in a discussion on New Age spirituality, “books on the Kabbalah, Golden Dawn books, The Zohar, books on the Tetragrammaton, Ernest Holmes books, Dalai Lama books,... read more »

“We decided we had to move or freeze to death.” Eleven-year old Norman Ollestad uttered these harrowing words to a newspaper reporter soon after being rescued in the San Gabriel Mountains. The small Cessna plane he had been traveling in had smashed into one of the range’s jagged... read more »

Have you ever experienced buyer’s remorse? I have. I wonder why I buy half the clothes hanging in my closet. Just prior to making a purchase, I feel the positive emotions that come with getting something new. Afterwards, having bought the item, a wave of remorse crashes over me. I become more... read more »

How have social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace helped you grow spiritually? How have they hindered your growth? ... read more »

I was reading in Matthew 26 this morning where Peter is confronted two times by several individuals in the courtyard and accused of being associated with Jesus. Each time he denied being with Him. The third time some other bystanders came to Peter and said, “you must be one of... read more »

When I was growing up, my father kept one can of WD-40 in the house and another in his car. It seemed it was the be-all and end-all for almost every mechanical problem. But what is WD-40? It literally stands for Water Displacement 40th attempt. In 1953, chemist Norm Larsen was attempting to concoct... read more »

A Christian leader recently accepted my invitation to deliver an address at the seminary where I teach. During his talk, the preacher distinguished between goodness as moral purity and goodness as acts of service. He illustrated the difference by saying that if you resist going into a pornographic... read more »

SARS in 2003. Bird or avian flu (H5N1) in 2004 and 2006. And the H1N1 or swine flu in 2009. It looks like the world is set for more flu outbreaks and potential pandemics. In 2006, surveys were conducted to determine if healthcare workers would abandon their workplace during a flu pandemic. One... read more »

I’m unashamedly a fan of Korean dramas (or Kdrama). And I have just completed a 50-episode Queen Seon Duk series recently. Queen Seon Duk is the first of three female rulers of Silla, one of the three kingdoms in ancient Korea. The drama depicts her rise to power, the challenges she faced... read more »