When I got out of the house and went to college, I was so judgmental. It’s embarrassing to think about. Arrogant young men can be so,...

It was just unexpected. After living in this small Midwestern town for a few years, I had nearly forgotten the perpetual state of...

Can you get beyond the pleasure-seeking to unearth your heart’s motive which is beneath?

The desires that wage war among the parts of our bodies are like soldiers attacking their own in friendly fire.

When you feel that tugging on your soul... would you ask God what need He’s revealing? It may be just our need in the weeds.

Do words ever come out of your mouth, and after – sometimes immediately after – you think, ‘I should not have said that…’? Sometimes our...

OK, so I was geeking out. Looking back on the myriad choices I’ve made, and the wonder of God speaking during all those, you quickly come...

We evoke the battle for the rights of all men and women not to be subject to the tyranny or prejudice of the powerful in society

What we say indicates to anyone listening what is important to us. After witnessing what could have been a tragic accident a few years...

when we say something stupid ...it can ruin what we were trying to accomplish. 'Stupid’ swamps whatever point we were trying to make.

“But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” (James 1:22ESV) ‘Hearers’ say one thing then do another. Post...

Folks are put on sides (whether we like it or not) and the debate rages, caricatured these days by people who want the state to take your...

How often do I say something stupid or just inaccurate? Even well-intentioned ideas can reveal where I am uninformed, unaware of a...

I understand when you get angry. (Believe me, I do.) You have plenty of reason to be. But in that, there's an infinite ocean of mercy to tap

When we see evil in the world, when we experience the evil welling up in ourselves or drawing us towards temptation, that’s not God.

All of life is training under fire. We can be led either to fail through temptation, or to perseverance and strength.

Even things that are good in and of themselves, if we get carried away, become evil.

These things are meant to point us to greater truths about our lives, how sometimes we pride ourselves on transient things.

It’s not that disparity is necessarily wrong or evil, but the heart attitude we draw from our circumstances can become temptations for us

The end of a life patterned after God is giving our lives and what we make of them back to Him