Shawn McEvoy

The holidays are certainly a time to think about - and assist - those less fortunate than ourselves. Then again, are we missing something?

So your family finds itself with a three-day weekend coming up. You want to do something fun, but also feel like you should, you know, actually appreciate the significance of what the Memorial Day holiday really entails. Well, why not do both? Photo credit: Unsplash/Julentto Photography

Does Christmas thrill you? Why or why not?

Who's got your goat? Have you ever tried seeing that individual, group, or faceless internet personage in a different light, from a different perspective, or even as God sees them?

If life is like a baseball game, should we expect souvenir foul balls to come our way, or not? A father reminisces about his young son’s first three trips to the local minor league park, and what those experiences taught him about blessings, expectations, happiness, and God’s goodness.

While few other words carry the same potential for dismissive rudeness, no other word holds the same potential for all-out surrender and steadfast faith.

There's a neat little verse in Ecclesiastes that pits Patience and Pride as opposites...

Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Her husband is, if he even shows a rhinestone's-worth of interest in her.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to hear which verses were blessings to folks who have gone through heartbreaks or challenges similar to what you are now experiencing. What I'm suggesting is that the Word of the Lord never returns void...

The Holy Spirit had been poured out at Pentecost, and I've always found it fascinating that its effects could be mistaken for less holier spirits...

These are tears of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the Giver and the immensity of a gift to a person consumed with self-interest who has forgotten innocence.

You, poor in spirit, you feel ill at ease in this world. Jesus sees you, and wants you to know, yours is the Kingdom of Heaven.

And the best promise of all while we're on this earth may just be new joy, new mercy every morning.

Let there be no mistaking: The American Bible Challenge game show is a Christian program on secular television, one that is all at once entertaining, inspiring, and educational.