Want a productive challenge this week? Count the number of times you try to impress someone with your words, appearance, kindness, or...

I never cease to be amazed at the transformative power of love. It can heal things medicines can’t touch. It can wash away a boatload...

“I’m sorry, Gary, but you can’t stay. You need a fourth of your tuition. That’s just school policy.” The business manager had given me...

If God were to call you on your cell tonight and say, "I’ve been watching your life, and I want to bless you. You can have anything you...

A little over six years ago, as I was sitting with my mother in the hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, monitoring her first chemo...

I've noticed that a lot of Christians have an extremely difficult time saying, "God loves you," to people they disapprove of. They say...

My mother was mean. Seriously. Most of my memories of her center around being yelled at, criticized, slapped or belittled. That caused me...

There's something magical about Springtime. Jonquils pushing their way through the moist soil, eager to display their beauty to the...

Hi, my name is Gary and I'm a recovering perfectionist! For years I lived under the thumb of self-imposed guilt, needless anxiety,...

We all have to live for something, but I've observed over the years that if our ambitions don't include a relationship with God, they...

Seems like everyone these days is in a hurry, on the move, "going for it," etc. Being busy seems to be a bit of a status symbol, a claim...

Here's his email: I’m a forty-two year old, married, Christian male who is struggling with purposelessness. Though my life is extremely...

I've always been intrigued with the passages in the Bible where it seems like God shows up late. One of the most obvious is when Lazarus...

I’ve always been intrigued by a verse in the life of Moses--Exodus 2:12. "Glancing this way and that, he killed the Egyptian and buried...

A friend of mine lost her baby recently...in the womb. The devastation was indescribable. Her anguish, palpable. She asked me to share...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said that friends are life's "sheltering trees." He's right. If you've ever basked in the shade of a deep...

She came into my office holding a crumpled letter. She stared at the floor for a while, and then said, “I can’t get beyond this. I can’t...

I've struggled with fear all my life. I'm making more progress these days because of believing some basic truths. I share them with the...

A friend sent me a long article today about the sovereignty of God. It said that nothing happens without God’s permission, thus...

I've come to believe that one of life's great freedoms...is the freedom to be nothing. Yep, you probably ought to read that again. I'm...