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 wil...

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 w...

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 h...

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

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 fr...

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 h...

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

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 se...

Someone asked me recently, "How can I have a "perfect relationship" with my significant other?" What would you say? I wrote down some in...