A few years ago we were praying with a friend of mine who was troubled. He had gone through a hard time in his life. The pain of divorce and layoffs l...
I've been making the case on this blog that brokenness is a good thing insofar as you're forced to face the reality that you are in fact broken. But...
There are stages to belief. We perceive a thing in our spirit and hope it to be true. Then we look into the matter some more; we talk about it and p...
Because we humans are needy, perpetually requiring help to navigate life and the responsibilities that it hands us, the empowerment we seek can take o...
I am an idea guy, but I often have to struggle to find faith. I tend to look at reality. I want to know the odds and hedge my bets if I can. All of wh...
Do you have a best friend? As preposterous as it sounds, the government may have something to say about that sort of discriminatory behavior. Professo...
Pakistan is a country that many Americans consider unsafe. We know what happened to Daniel Pearl there. We are wary. So what do you do when you hea...
So many of us are stuck in ruts in life, places where we're trapped by past experience, by expectations, by relationships. Parts of our brain and sp...
You can tell the Christians who haven't made Jesus Lord yet from a distance. You'll see a number of telltale signs: Chaos in their personal l...
Jesus said, "Anyone who wants to save their life must lose it." (Matt. 16:25) That's the language of surrender wrapped in paradox. Surrender is n...
