Those who argue that faith is purely a gift of God contend that a dead man has no power to exert his will. If he did, he would be...

Background: Some men who ironically thrive under failure fall apart in times of success. But not Joseph. Every sinew of his soul has...

Without a doubt, Joseph's profound fear of God not only holds him steady through all his experiences as a slave in Egypt but also becomes...

We so often hear the sound of a thought without thinking. God is God. And we rush right on, wanting something more. There is no more. We...

A touch of love and petals open, blossoms burst through snowy bark, eaglets dare the mountain gorges, songbirds giggle...

All I want out of life is Heaven--Adam's Eden is long dead . . . But sometimes still a buttercup evening springs Gold shadows...

Waves, tumbling broken shells in the unbroken crash and hush of tide, skidding to shore and crawling backwards, spent, subdued, gurgle...

She pulls her silver in patient ripples, stringing adhesive wire from spoke to spoke, clasping one circumference and another, and...

Like a hot air balloon of gasping brightness, The sun ascends the gravity of night, Flames into a blinding, red-gold ball...

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--three very human patriarchs who each spoke directly with God and whose prayers and altars are recorded in...