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

We are people who need to know. We think that knowing more information helps us follow God. But what kind of information?

What is the trait that makes a person someone God can use? We take personality tests. We find our number on an enneagram scale. We look...

Sarah was named a princess. That's what her name means. However, her name carried no royalty. She has always been treated as a...

When do you see stars? At night, mostly. In fact, the darker the night, the better we see them. Esther lived in a very dark time and...

I have been asked this question more than any other question. Too many believe that conversation with an invisible God means a one-way conv

Didn’t we used to be happy? In the eyes that stare at me above masks that cover faces I see today, I see sad and frustrated. I see tired...

My mother had an aluminum cast lemon squeezer that she used to make lemonade on the hot, muggy days of my early childhood in Houston, Texas.

In the middle of these closed-in and travel-less times . . .

I love beautiful gardens. I see the beauty, but not the plan behind it. I wish I could grow something besides straggling stems and...

What pushes peace aside to make you fearful, stressed, or struggling? I’ve been thinking a lot about the peace Jesus promised in these...

And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52 How do you grow wisdom or stature? How do you grow in...

Remember when you got in trouble as a child? Your parent said something like, “Do you remember what I told you? Why didn’t you do it?”...

Worry is a pesky intruder that threatens to undermine everything God wants us to enjoy. Worry shows up when we are out of control,...