Weekly Devotionals in Hope

Just after the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, I spent ten weeks in Jerusalem. One afternoon I was invited to have...

What matters in life is that we should stick with the Lord. Where He goes, we follow. When He says halt,...

“I hope it doesn’t snow tomorrow,” we say, thinking of our plans to visit family or friends. Or, “We’re just hoping they finish the...

Can God possibly do anything about the matter that troubles me most today?  Isn’t it really a bit much to...

The urgency of some matter at hand—a family member ill or rebellious or unemployed or estranged, a sudden disaster, an...

Uncertainty is surely, for most of us, one of the harder lessons in faith.  We look ahead and see only...

Psychologists chart stress factors related to various kinds of emotional trauma and the response of different people to those factors—death,...

“I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry” (Ps 40:1, NIV). The tests of...

Shortly before my daughter Valerie, my only child, went off to college as a freshman, a “sudden tide” came over...

While a new year offers us a fresh start, it can also bring anxiety.  Questions crowd into our minds.  Will...

Out of the dusk, a promise (Is. 9:6) Out of the dark, a star (Mt. 2:2) Out of the world,...

“I hope it doesn’t snow tomorrow,” we say, thinkng of our plans to visit family or friends. Or, “We’re just...