Being Alone vs. Being Lonely.

We were in Laurel last week, visiting with the grandkids, Katherine and Levi, and their expendable parents. (If you’re a grandparent, I don’t need to explain. Katherine and Levi’s parents just tend to get in the way of our fun.) Katherine and Levi would rather eat at Waffle House than any other restaurant in the […]

Trusting God when He is silent.

I went through an awful season some years back. I needed some answers from God Himself — it was one of those “crisis of belief” times that Henry Blackaby so eloquently talked about in “Experiencing God.” This blog deals with that.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

In our modern world, the concept of shame often gets a bad rap. It’s seen as an outdated, negative emotion, something to be avoided at all costs. But have we, in our quest to be free of discomfort, lost sight of the transformative power of shame?

Dancing With God’s Purpose

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will, never in full view of the world. You’ll never have any idea what other people are really going through. Just know that other believers wrestle with God’s will, just like you.

Forgiving God.

Forgiving God may seem like an unusual concept in Christian theology. After all, isn’t God, who is perfect and sinless, the one who forgives us?

teenagers studying the bible

The NIV Student Bible – new and darn good.

This Bible delivers the goods. It’s geared toward students, but the more I delved into it, the more I realized that restricting it to simply an audience of “students” does the rest of us a disservice. I’ll use this one in my own studies. It’s that helpful.

man struggling with his faith and hope

Faith. Where’s yours?

I’ll admit that I woke up this morning and took a look at one of my aggregate news sites before getting in any Jesus time. That little exercise might have just skewed my whole day. Instead of basking in the love of Jesus, I saw – as if I didn’t know – just how awful this temporal world is.