Chief of Hypocrites

I surely can’t be the only one who skips over some Scriptures a hundred times, a thousand times, maybe, and then suddenly one day, as I’m asking the Lord to open the Scriptures to me, He opens some obscure little phrase in a way I never expected. (That’s what makes...

Glory, Glory, Glory

Those Corinthians were recalcitrants. (That’s one of my current favorite words.) When Paul wrote 2 Corinthians, he was having trouble in pretty much every conceivable area of his life. The  influential Jewish leaders, who were the self-professed enemies of...

On Holiness and Human Waste

Do you think your verbal expressions are justified? You rather enjoy the inadvertent blush of some less-trendy peers or the blanch of the older generation? And of course you have strong feelings, so you need strong expressions to express them. And this is part of our...

Broken Wall, Torn Curtain

At the end of November, 1989, we welcomed Stephen Davis into the world. At the very same time, the Berlin wall was coming down. I remember watching it on television—me, the young mother who had been suffering with debilitating morning sickness, exhausted by my...