3 Fantastic Questions to Ask During Every Sermon

This Sunday, it’s going to happen again. You’ll hear one more sermon to add to the thousands you’ve listened to.

Read More
3 Fantastic Questions to Ask During Every Sermon

When Your Life Feels Empty

I used to use an old pickup truck for odd jobs. It was dented, scratched, and ugly—but faithful. The only

Read More
When Your Life Feels Empty

Being Better than Your Parents is the Wrong Goal

Growing up in a godly home is no guarantee you’ll follow God. You can live better than your parents did.

Read More
Being Better than Your Parents is the Wrong Goal

Why You Should Avoid the Path Of Least Resistance

The path of least resistance is a fact of nature. Rivers always flow around a mountain rather than through it.

Read More
Why You Should Avoid the Path Of Least Resistance

How the Spring Blows Open Your Backdoor to Hope

Not long ago I walked down a country road and saw the spring leaves popping from the trees. Literally a

Read More
How the Spring Blows Open Your Backdoor to Hope

The Kidron Valley – How Your Burial Can Point to Your Faith

Have you thought where you’ll be buried? The place where someone chooses to get buried is always significant. A hometown

Read More
The Kidron Valley – How Your Burial Can Point to Your Faith

What Makes Your Nostalgia So Risky?

Years ago Cathy and I traveled with another couple to a park near their hometown. After we arrived, they pointed

Read More
What Makes Your Nostalgia So Risky?

Feel Stuck? You’re Not, Really.

Problems never just go away or take care of themselves. The Lord will patiently wait and permit the circumstances to

Read More
Feel Stuck? You’re Not, Really.

What to Do When You Feel Insignificant

When we find ourselves dissatisfied with what God has us doing, it could reveal that we’ve confused our significance in

Read More
What to Do When You Feel Insignificant

How I Got Robbed on the Good Samaritan Road

Jesus chose as the setting for His parable of the Good Samaritan a road notorious for robbers. Turns out, that

Read More
How I Got Robbed on the Good Samaritan Road

Good Friday Gives Your Shame a Choice

Good Friday wasn’t so good for Judas. The guilt-ridden betrayer of Jesus hung himself and then fell headlong, spilling his

Read More
Good Friday Gives Your Shame a Choice

The Israel Museum, the Holocaust Museum

We spent the morning in Jerusalem at two magnificent museums. Both reflect a history of the chosen people that we

Read More
The Israel Museum, the Holocaust Museum