Jesus said, take his gift away and give it to him (paraphrasing). What if on your next birthday, you open a great present, and then it is taken from you and given to someone else? What would you do? What would you say? What if you are a great baseball player at 8 years old, but you...

God gave Alan the gift of teaching. God gave Jim the gift of encouragement. God gave Megan the gift of music. Those are 3 names that quickly come to my mind when I think of people who have taken what God has given them and use it for Him. I could name a lot more people…but I’m...

Whenever I encounter this parable I immediately think about the ways that it has been taught to me before, and I am not suggesting that my teachers got it wrong, but the basic principal was this: Don’t squander your gifts or you will lose them. I suppose that lesson is present in these...