When you are called to be Christ’s apostle to “Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel,”[1] as Paul was called to be, what can you do to fulfill that calling when you are locked away in a Roman prison? Paul’s passion & zeal had driven him all over the known world—planting churches, training leaders, preaching to crowds, surviving stoning, flogging and shipwreck. Now, for over two years, he is a captive of the empire, spending long days in solitude and deep thought. Though he was confined...

Presence is everything. When my daughters were young, we loved to go on walks. We had a large grassy area behind our townhome, and I’d...

They were the Sutton’s; the family from the wrong side of the tracks who also happened to attend our church. I would say I was a typical...