Beginning my morning devotions in Mark's gospel this year, I was immediately struck with how Mark begins his gospel. He does not begin like with God as Creator as in Genesis "In the beginning God created" (1:1) or like John with Jesus as Creator, "In the beginning was...

... "I wonder how long I might have to live." The pain in my shoulder and chest due to lifting weights, so I thought, had increased with such severity that I couldn't lie down, sit up or stand still and I asked Rachel to get me to ER. The doctor's questions over the...

... said the Indian lady at my book table Christmas Day. "That does it," "Lord, I've heard this too many times over the last 19 years." The first time. My professor at Regent College, Vancouver, turned to me, "Richard, you should write," and then carried on his...

This morning it was tough to get up to meet with the Lord and I had to                                                                                           have a one-on-one with myself before I could have a one-on-one with the Lord. But I'm in good company....

Opera was waning in popularity, and a depressed Handel thought to move from his London home on Brook Street back to Germany.  Then in 1741 he was given a manuscript of prophetic passages taken from the Bible about Jesus, the Messiah, by Charles Jennens. Consumed with...

Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God.  He has always been alive and is himself God. He created everything there is—nothing exists that he didn’t make. Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind. His life is the light that...