I’m Thankful for the Apostles I’m thankful for the Apostles for several reasons. They obeyed their commission, establishing churches and missionary teams that endured and eventually brought the gospel to my distant, Gentile ancestors. As a writer, I’m thankful that they wrote to the churches they oversaw and established. If they hadn’t done that, we
Hope is a gift from God for sanctification. The idea seems more obvious now than it did six weeks ago, though it’s always been true. But, how shall we comprehend hope? Poet Emily Dickinson offers us some vivid imagery in her 314th poem: “Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings
Breakthrough depends on the actions of others. We don’t achieve it on our own. On Tuesday, I mentioned that one magazine turned away a short story of mine. The whole situation is a little like observing storm clouds. They darken, and you begin to wonder if they’re going to hail down on you like