There’s a funny little strand of my DNA which has been active since as far back as I can remember: I never grow tired of watching practical jokes that include ...

Peter left the boat while the other eleven Jesus-followers stayed put. The impressive King David fled his own realm when his renegade son, Absalom, facilitated a coup. Peter, the aforementioned ...

Nobody ruins my day.  Nobody steals my hope. Nobody makes me angry. Nobody robs me of joy.  As a matter of fact I am fully capable of doing all of ...

The stoutest of faiths will occasionally experience the deepest of shaking.  Over and over again the Scripture magnifies the holiness of our Supreme God.  He is the merciful and loving ...

Out of options.  Discouraged.  Jaded.  Disgusted.  Fearful. Bitter. Fatalistic.  I have experienced all of these undesirable aspects of life.  I wish I could boldly declare that these facets of living ...

Fear is a pretty potent force.  You have your fears, I have mine.  Some monster out there on the horizon dares you to challenge it while something inside of you ...

The Oscars were on television last night. If there was ever a more vacuous scene, void of reality and meaningfulness, I have no idea what it was. No, I didn't ...

"...and You brought them into the land that You had told their fathers to enter and possess. So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and You subdued before ...

With Springtime here and the Summer quickly approaching, the atmosphere is beginning to change in the Lyle household. While we typically enjoy all the seasons during a calendar year, the ...

The thought occurred to me this morning that my God is incredibly generous.  Several things rushed into my mind as I removed the scruff off my face with my morning ...

There are few subjects that I wish I were a poorer student in.  From a very young age I have always wanted to pursue my goals wholeheartedly - to win ...

It would be impossible for me to count the number of roommates I have had over my lifetime. While sharing apartments with friends in my wandering days, it was not ...

The biblical blockbuster, ‘Hall of Faith’ in Hebrews chapter eleven is one of my favorite passages in the New Testament.  There we are given a long list of both named ...

If you read through the Christmas narratives in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, an interesting element seems to appear with a greater frequency than we might think.  It occurs ...

The last handful of days have been rather sobering.  If you are like many, your priorities have been rearranged and your problems put in perspective.  The things that bothered me ...

Wishing everyone a grand weekend as we prepare to enter Holy Week and celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday March 31st.  If you don't have anywhere to worship ...

  "The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.  If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth ...

One of the amazing aspects of the bible is that it is timeless in its central themes.  Though the cultures of the human authors in scripture were different from our ...

Do you welcome God to address the weaknesses within you?  No sense in pretending that you don't have any because you know that they are there.  We try to pile ...

Speaking with an elderly lady in the midst of suffering, I hung up the phone yesterday after spending some time wanting to identify with her in her pain.  I've learned ...

Here's another guest post from Doug Lyle while my family & I are still enjoying time away.  I trust you all are faring well and enjoying the grace and mercy ...

The thing that is bigger than you controls you.  You are aware that you are not the largest, strongest, prettiest, smartest, holiest, deepest, most lasting, most powerful or most successful.  ...

How many days have you spent with fear, dread or anxiety?  I've come to the conclusion that some level of one of those negative forces haunts me for a portion ...

How would you classify your conscience?  Some posses a sensitive conscience which pierces them quickly and deeply each time they transgress.  Others among us have a dulled conscience which has ...

Perhaps one of the most uncomfortable occasions in a Christian's life is to come to the conclusion that your faith is much smaller than it should be.  Usually this moment ...