Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego faithfully stand for God when that faithfulness comes with dire consequences. They trust that God can deliver them. So too, God will deliver us, although not always in the way or the time we hope for or expect. For some of us, we are delivered from the fire, spared the ordeal.…

In the story of Daniel and his friends, we can see that they choose to be different in obedience to God for the sake of others (their Babylonian captors). In our current cultural context, Christians are also called to embody a different way of life in a culture that doesn't understand us for the sake…