When you find your hunger, you can feed your hunger. Hunger sends us searching even when we don’t know what we want. It works the same...

Hunger finds me; I don’t have to go looking for it. Why isn’t it that way with a hunger for God and His Word? I can put a parade of...

The will of God is my highest aim and most frustrating target. Even though I know God’s will is my best option in every choice, my own...

I don’t know how I’m going to make it! is the scream I hear inside my head. It comes from hitting some energy or confidence wall. It...

What do you do when you are overwhelmed by some big project or life event? Whether it is a new health crisis, life without someone we...

Are we a nation God can bless or are we losing our status as a “one nation under God?” Some would say that our nation is better off...

Who doesn’t like a new beginning? Except when they’re hard! I don’t even remember what new beginning challenged me so much that I knew I...

Why is the truth so important? Why can’t I just use what I think is best and run with it? Because untruths trap. Lies destroy. What you...

How can I know the Truth? That is no small question. Often, we treat the Truth as if it is some slippery fish that will wiggle out of...

What is the truth? Reality or perception? Even when we say we want the truth, we usually don’t. We want truth to slant our way, so we...

I opened my Living Bible like a child opens a present, eager to enjoy what was inside. I was enjoying an oasis after a hard semester...

My bedroom was on the second floor of our two-story, traditional Kansas City house where I grew up. We didn’t have central air, but I...

Before spiritual formation was a buzz word among Christians, I think it was what I hungered for early in my commitment to follow Jesus....

Do you have a gardener? A gardener is different from a landscape service who comes in to mow and trim and get to the next job as quickly...

The two words on the outside of the roughly-made card caught my attention. It was Lisa’s 2000 Easter card. She loved making cards and...

Why did we take this journey to the cross? For me it was for the honesty that the cross demands. Have you noticed how no one lied from...

Each person who investigated the tomb on that Easter day found the unexpected. Think about the soldiers who drew the short end of some...

Darkness is our enemy when it comes out of order and unexpected. A power outage that wipes out electricity and our quick access to light...

We prefer our saviors to look like one. Eugene Peterson paraphrased the first verse of Isaiah’s great prophecy: Who would have thought...

As Jesus and his disciples celebrate Passover, and nothing about the table was out of the ordinary. The disciples recognized the very...