Have you ever had this experience?  You are having a conversation with a friend and the conversation stays pleasant, but later you find out that…

My oldest son got a paper route when he was about twelve. Every morning before school he would deliver the newspaper to the neighbors on…

This entry is sort of a part two to my last post, “A Time of Blah.”  I was still feeling sort of blah and wrote…

It feels sort of sacrilegious to use the term ‘blah’ in connection with God but the blahness has to do with me, not God!  I’m…

There is nothing new under the sun.  So it’s no wonder God uses the same strategy to encourage His people as He did thousands of…

For all our married life Mark has struggled against alcoholism.   By the grace of God, he has been winning the battle consistently for over six…

I was 22 when I came to know Jesus, and before that I hadn’t really thought about how to love the unlovely or annoying in…

Church life is far from perfect or even relationally safe.  How could it be when it is made up of people? We’re all just sinners…

I wrote this thirty years ago.  Today, I would have responded differently to this situation with more grace, I hope.  I had survived breast cancer…

Here’s a true confession.  When I was in junior high, I was what could be called ‘boy crazy’.  I didn’t have a personal relationship with…