I can’t remember when I memorized the Lord’s Prayer or how it came about. The words roll out of my mouth without even thinking about...

It’s been two years since Lisa left her broken body to make her journey home. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish for one more hug, one...

I’ve told you what I believe about prayer; now let’s look at the flip side. Here are four things I don’t believe prayer is. 1. I don’t...

If prayer is only ritual or recitation, my best ideas rolled into a request, or depends on the right words to get the right result; I am...

As we celebrate the freedoms our country has provided, we also live in the tension of what sometimes feels more like chaos than freedom. ...

When life has tumbled your around until you don’t know which side is up, when too many circumstances are outside of your control, when...

Who are you trying to please? I think we all agree that we need to please God first, that pleasing Him is in our best interest, that...

When spiritual stakes are high, when some fierce battle of choice rages, when I fear a person I love could turn the wrong way, I pray...

No prayer is more desperate than a prayer for healing, whether for yourself or for someone you love. I’ve prayed for healing for our...

If I could only pray one prayer for the rest of my life, I would choose this prayer! Search me . . . know my heart Test me . . . know my...

Can prayer make dreams come true? It depends on whose dreams they are! I discovered this prayer when I was single for longer than my...

How do you know when your work is finished? When you’ve put in your 8 hours? When you’ve turned the project over to someone else? When...

Who Have Lost a Child by death, miscarriage, or estrangement. I know something of the hole in your heart, the empty place that haunts...

Plants need roots. Shallow tendrils won’t hold. Plants need aggressive, tunneling fingers that go deep and wide to support and supply...

How do you decide what is best? Flip a coin? Make a pro and con list? By what “feels” best? Pray about it? Of course we know the...

What prayers have shaped your life? How did you learn them? What happens when you pray them? In the next months, I want to share ten...

Do you eat breakfast? It’s the most important meal of the day that nobody has time to fix. Most mornings it’s a fiber-rich, low sugar...

Sometimes we take the sad journey to Emmaus like two disheartened disciples took that first Easter. It is the journey when we think all...

What God did on Easter cannot be explained, dissected, formulized, or ignored. Virgin birth should have prepared us. God came to...

Betrayal is a subtle visitor . . . until it isn’t. On the night that Jesus was betrayed, only Jesus saw the darkness lurking. He had...