Remember The Absent

It is our job to seek out the disappeared and the vanishing. It is our responsibility not just to note that people are gone, but to find out why and to extend help where it might be needed.

Yes, The Parable of the Prodigal Son Is Unfair and Uncomfortable.

I'd like to be honest and say that if the parable of the prodigal son doesn't sometimes irritate you just a little, you might be missing another truth inside it. [Click title to read more.]

When God’s Love Is Invisible

There's a lot of what God does - and of what God does for us - that we don't know. And often we don't know that we don't know. [Click title to read more.]

Six Teaching Tips For Sunday School Or Small Group Leaders

Many people have the calling to teach, but lack the training that might help them be better or more effective at doing so. In light of that, here's a set of six tips for teachers and small group leaders who might otherwise be going it alone. [Click title to read more.]

Honoring The Past Without Idolizing It

If we value the past more than the present - if we perceive the best part of our lives as having come and gone - we run the risk of always trying to return to it rather than growing and living and being. [Click title to read more.]

New Book Available!

My new book is now available on Amazon! [Click title to read more.]

Weekly Round-Up

Let's catch up, pray, and rest together. [Click title to read more.]

You Are A Story You’ve Never Dreamed Of

God also knows all of our possibilities and strengths and what we have the capacity to do. More than we do, God has the vision of who exactly we are meant to be, what we might be like when we're everything He created us for. [Click title to read more.]

Not All Christians Smile

It's easy for us to reflect our own assumptions, ideas, and personalities onto Christianity as a whole and onto other believers, too. It's simple, in other words, for us to assume that other believers do or should act just like us because they love the same God we do and are blessed in the same way as we are. [Click title to read more.]

Why I Am Trying To Be Grateful For Winter

I suspect that God wants to cultivate gratitude in us not just because He likes being thanked - though He does - but also because gratitude in all circumstances gets us in the practice of hammering away at our natural inclinations and habits. [Click title to read more.]