I never expected what happened one morning of last December. I was up early as normal to begin my writing morning with an Advent...

Ask me what my biggest challenge during these days has been and I have only one answer: connections. I can handle more home time. I am a...

Jesus called out the people who thought that they were close to God because they were descendants of Abraham. He said, Is that where our...

What do we need to thrive? Food and oxygen for sure. Relationships and meaningful involvement are high on the list. We give a lot of...

Spiritual growth isn’t automatic. Nor can growth become a task on list to check off. Instead, growth is 25% determination but 75%...

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...

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...

Lockdown. That’s what we’ve been experiencing during this pandemic. We’ve sustained an uncomfortable and unnatural lockdown of...

Does it surprise you that Jesus’ resurrected body had scars? Thomas gives us this peek into this resurrection fact. A visual learner, no...

What miraculous sign can you show us? John 2:18, NIV Journeys require signs to keep us going in the right direction. Our discipleship...

What will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account? Job 31:14, NIV Lent is something of an annual review. We...

When I think of people who modeled an intimate relationship with God, it always showed up best in their prayers. They were talking to a...

How does intimacy with God develop?.This is an important leading question because the last thing I want from prayer is a guilt...

Is there anything more important we could learn in 2021 than how prayer could transform our lives? I fear we ask the wrong questions of...

Is courage just an over-positive accounting of your skills and belief in yourself? Is it a reckless nod to adventure and risk? What is...

Most of the New Testament scripture I remember the best, Paul wrote. He was a master in communicating the truths of transformation. He...

As a young adult, I wondered how I could know for sure that a marriage relationship could last for life.

On a day when I felt my parenting skills shriveling, when fear wrapped me in an impenetrable shroud, and I felt helpless staring into a...

My favorite Gospel writer is Luke. He captured so many of Jesus’ stories and interactions, especially the ones about healing. I look at the