Life in the Fast Lane 　　This devotional was written by Jim Burns 　　The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. —Exodus 14:14 　　Far too many of us live in what some people call crisis mode living. This lifestyle is when you spend most every waking moment of almost every day trying to figure how to keep...

　　Our foreign policy debates today exceed in intensity those of the past four generations. This is not to say our debates are nastier—they have always been impolite—but rather that they cut to the core of the purpose of American foreign policy in a way that more recent debates have not. At the most basic level, the issue under question is...

　　From the Overflow of the Heart 　　By Michelle Lazurek 　　Bible Reading: 　　“You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” – Matthew 12:34 　　Ministry life has its share of ups and downs. In the 25 years that I've been in the pastoral ministry, we've had some...

　　Wednesday, March 12, 2025 　　The Unlikely Candidate 　　“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” (1 Samuel 16:7 NLT) 　　David was a complex person. He was a warrior...

　　In sports, as in life, it often does pay to break the rules. In baseball, the Houston *stros improperly used electronics to steal signs, won the World Series, and received little more than a gentle pat on the wrist. In football, Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots’ former coach, spied on opponents and deflated footballs on his way to multiple...

　　America’s central economic problem is preserving the nations capacity to sustain growth vigorous enough to counteract an impending fiscal crisis of escalating national debt. Part of the reason that growth has declined in the last decades is the stifling force of over-regulation. The new administration’s sweeping agenda for regulatory rollback thus need not represent merely political posturing, but has the...

　　What Does Sabbath Look Like for You? (Genesis 2:2-3) 　　By: Amanda Idleman 　　By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day, he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had...

　　Don’t Just Hear Your Spouse, Listen 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger… -James 1:1-19 (ESV) 　　Listening can be tough. Oh sure, we hear all day long. We hear our spouses talking about their day, we hear our children telling that fifteen-minute-long story from...