Why Does God Want to Hang Out with a Bad Person Like Me?
Sometimes you will hear someone pull a line from an old movie and declare, “We’re not worthy!”…
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Waiting on the Ripening
When we moved into our house, I found some scraggly vines in one corner of the yard. They produced…
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How Loving Enemies Can Work
I keep thinking of my Jewish tour guide from my trip to Jerusalem, telling me that Israelis and…
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Where Is Jesus?
Years ago, the youth at our church were conducting the sunrise service and recreating the Easter…
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Removing Specks and Planks
Although a carpenter by trade, Jesus rarely used analogies based on carpentry. But he was surely…
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Witnessing the Promises of God
I was a sweaty teenager, mowing the yard at the small-town parsonage where we lived, when my mother…
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How to Love Your Difficult Neighbor
A reader reached out to me to excitedly tell me that a recommended technique in my book, Live Like…
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A Diary for My Best Friend
“It was in a yellow folder,” I thought to myself as I dug around in my garage and attic, searching…
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How Can God Help Me?
“How can God help me?” This question could be the cry of someone in despair. It could be the…
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The Risky Business of Helping a Shark
Clicking on the headline, "Man Helps Shark Get Back in Water," I expected to see a man tossing a…
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