Heaven cries. Nature groans. Either we can’t hear it or we ignore it. Has it always been that way? Not from the beginning. God created...

I’ve walked the unpaved streets in a third world country and looked at faces of people who lived in homes that had a sheet for a door. ...

Our world is not grateful. We get caught mimicking ungrateful attitudes around us. It starts with a whine and morphs into complaint. So...

Do you know what the number one killer of gratitude is? Entitlement. We build entitlement with expectations, true or false, possible or...

When I am lost, I look for signs. Street signs. Landmark signs. However, what I really want is to see someone lifting up a sign that...

How many times have I tried to make my plans only to have them explode before my eyes. Nobody was caught in the shrapnel but me. I bear...

The fight to be right is a messy war, but we engage in it all the time.. We leave collateral damage and never clean up. We squabble...

The truth about redemption is that someone pays for it. Always. We needed a freedom we couldn't negotiate. God wanted to reclaim the ...

We celebrate when babies come into the world. Newborn pictures rock social media. Birth initiates a hopeful beginning. You see it in...

What gets us through the times when we encounter the unexpected or unknown? I have one answer: FAITH! But there's a lot of...

In our lives with God, we have a reach problem. Not God’s. Ours. We want to reach God. Isn’t that what prayer is supposed to do—knock...

I was 7 or 8 when I tried to change my name. I thought I had that authority. After all, it was my name, wasn’t it? My given name,...

God has a sense of humor. Anyone who creates a long-necked giraffe, who stripes a horse and instills the sage grouse with the most...