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It's been over a week since we returned from our Holy Land pilgrimage. What an amazing, life changing journey! Many people told me that...

Yesterday wasn't the strangest Ash Wednesday, but it was certainly up there. Twenty-five years ago—Ash Wednesday 1996—Eric got down on...

One of my children's all time favorite VBS songs is "We Do Not Lose Heart!" based on 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. The littlest ones always...

Here we are. Not much has changed. School ended without any fanfare. We held our breath, waiting for the end of "Zoom Gloom," monitoring...

As meetings, practices, schools, and travel get cancelled one by one due to the pandemic known as the coronavirus, we find ourselves...

Lent is a time to subdue our physical nature in the hope that our oft forgotten spiritual nature will be brought to the surface, refined,...

No one knows exactly how many thoughts we have each day, but it's more than you'd expect: experts say it's up there in the tens of...

Sadly, the time has come. Truth be told, it's long overdue. My beloved Bible—the one that's been with me for the last twenty years—has...

He's my PEACE when there is no peace. Jeremiah was having a moment with the leaders of God's people. They were supposed to be lovingly...

I heard a great interview the other day with former NFL player turned Life Coach Trent Shelton. The two main take aways were: protect...

Everyone loves a new beginning. We don't have to wait until the new year to start over; the first Sunday of Advent signals the beginning...

Getting past Halloween means one thing and one thing only: we have now entered the holiday season. Most people will white knuckle it...

I didn't plan to spend three hours yesterday getting X-rays and a cast for my oldest son. But it also didn't send me into some kind of...

Ah, back to school. Most moms breathe a sigh of relief as the bus pulls away that first day. But by day four or five, what begins as mild...

All eight of us are coming and going a lot more than usual this summer. Trips with friends, camps, vacations, competitions, a funeral,...

"I don't know what God wants me to do." That's something I hear quite a bit. We'd love God to give us clear direction about the big and...

Preacher, evangelist, and prayer warrior, R.A. Torrey, graduated from Yale Divinity School more than 100 years before I did. He also had...

What happens when we pray? We move from the impossibilities of our humanity into the infinite possibilities of His divinity: "with man...

While many of us have good intentions regarding spending time in prayer, life gets in the way. There's always something competing for our...

Let's face it, we all encounter problems in our prayer life more often than we'd like to admit. Lack of motivation, not committing the...