On Sundays, Pastor Bryan has been walking us through the book of Esther. When you combine God’s timing with what I like to call “God-cidences” — those circumstances only God could have orchestrated — and add God doing what He does best, bending evil into good, you get the incredible story of Esther: an unlikely hero that nobody saw coming, whom God used to save an entire people from destruction!

Over the years of teaching theology to college and seminary students, I reminded them that they would most likely spend very little time with children in their ministry except for the few who selected children's ministries…

The Holy Book. God’s Word. God’s love letter to us. Basic instructions before leaving Earth. These were some of the terms used to describe the Bible as I grew up. I was even taught…

Seven years ago, a close friend of mine was diagnosed with brain cancer, and the doctors gave her…