Pastors

A new series of For Your Soul columns, based on Keri Wyatt Kent's devotional book Oxygen: Deep Breathing for the Soul.

On my desk, I have a cut-glass vase housing bright yellow daffodils and two small but pungent purple hyacinths.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.

What happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity.

When you work with children, interruptions are inevitable.

I've noticed that different people interpret what that means in different ways.

As a leader, what are you doing to feed your soul?

When we look at Jesus, we remember his love for us.

I am writing this in a quiet place, where I have come, to get some rest.

One of my favorite spiritual practices is one you don't hear much about: the practice of play.