When was the last time you were totally and intimately silent? Even now, if you stop reading this, chances are sky high it won’t be silent. You’ll hear your fan or heater, or kids if you’re at home. You’ll hear …
Lets just get this out of the way now… What I am about to write will surely frustrate half of my readers, and probably confuse the other half…especially the parents. I want to open up the conversation about the place …
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From diet trends to politics to management styles, we are drawn to drastic solutions. Armed with more information than patience, we don’t just fix a problem as soon as we identify it. Instead, we keep fixing it until it’s a …
The goal of spending a year with Jesus is to learn how to pray. Our prayers do not start with us. They start with Jesus. Before we ever open our mouths in prayer, Jesus is praying for us. Despite much …
Bankrupt! The word has a dreadful ring to it. In fact, it is more than a word, it’s an expression. It means failure, insolvency, inability to pay one’s debts, perhaps financial ruin. Even in our lax and permissive society, being …
For many young women, life just sort of happens to them. They don’t give much thought about where they want to go and what they want their lives to look like. In their families, that means they just get by. …
The race in which we run has numerous opportunities for doubt and fear. If we don’t run with faith and trust, our race has no joy, no peace, and certainly no freedom. So how do we lay aside doubt and …
I once dressed myself, drove to the airport, went through the entire security process, flew to another city, attended and spoke at an event, and finally found my way to a hotel room late in the evening before realizing that …
When Jesus sent out his disciples, he was kind enough to pair them up two by two. He gave them authority to deal with evil opposition, to which I suppose they may have gulped, eyes wide with fear. But what …
The Hebrew language is best understood as describing a people in action, moving from here to there. Genesis is all about movement: out of the Garden, out of Harran, out of Canaan, and finally into Egypt. Many scholars see Genesis …