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My Birthday Message

Thought for Today

Thought for Today

Thought for Today

Thought for Today

Thought for Today

Merry Christmas

Always Winter, Never Christmas

Mary Did You Know

The Rest of the Story

Joseph

How to Know What Someone Else is Thinking

Annoying People

The Virgin Birth

The Darkness Dilemma

A Music Lesson

Blindness in a Believer

The Courage to Live in the Present

Tripwires

If God Didn’t Exist

Life Would Be Easy

Tiny Mustard Seed Faith

Our Thirst for Power

Solving Our Problems Ourselves

Be Thou My Vision

Partying as a Spiritual Discipline

The Theology of Frosty the Snowman

Self Judgement

Healthy Self-Love and Narcissism

Caring Or Condemning Yourself

When the Seed Sticks

On Practicing

Living into Better Thinking

Diversity, Before The Word Was Stolen

Life is Hard and also Good

Reviewing Forgiveness

The Discipline of Thankfulness

Thankfulness for Aches and Pains

Thankfulness for Sports, Parades, and Ballet

Thankfulness for Babies

Thankfulness For Discernment

Thankfulness When God Makes No Sense

Thankfulness For Feelings

Thankfulness For What I Lack

Hating Strangers in Other Cars

Too Afraid to Speak Out

Why Things Are Impossible

The Power of Grace

Our Personal and Private Pains

Finding God in a Science Class

Are We a Cosmic Fluke?

All We Need

Understanding Faith

My First Meeting

Easier To Deny Reality Than Accept Responsibility

Unraveled by Rage

Two Stories You Live In

The Unsafe World

Are You Seeking a Cure for Hurt Feelings?

How Many Friends Do We Need?

Fear

Real Listening

If You Don’t Believe in Miracles

One Word Prayer

Why the Family is Under Attack

Interfering in Another’s Problems

A Bad Medical Idea

Changing One’s Mind

Are We Dying From a Thousand Paper Cuts?

The Difference Between Thinking and Education

Next Time

Desperately Wanting What the World Rejects

Bible Study Tips

The Broken Glow-Stick

The Best Teachers

What Does it Mean to Inherit the Earth ?

Our Greatest Inheritance

The Sadder Side of Life

Good Grief

Time for a Story

Becoming Untethered

Petting Gorillas

Testing Anxiety

Holiday Expectations

A Writing Tip

Celebrity Influence

The Evangelistic Community

Coming Clean

Problem Solving

Finding the Great Spouse

Real Marriage

Biblical Gobbledygook

Your First Church Visit

Got Good Religion?

Got Religion?

Is God Fair?

The Narrow Gate Entrance

Argument Reframing

Gladness in the Badness

The Wrath of Love

Thinking Critically

Understanding Critical Theory

When We Suffer Hurt by Another

The Certainty of Uncertainty

The Hula Hoop

Betting It All

The Steps Between Steps

Starting at Empty

What is Effective Prayer?

Flipping The Switch

God’s Job Description

Aim Well

To Be A Christian

Living Relative Truth

The Wrong Conclusion

“All” is a Big Word

Sadly Silly

Making Joy-filled Noise

Starting Your Day

Let’s Not Do That Again

Perseverance

Restoring Some Sanity

The Genius of a Twelve Step Meeting

When Life Throws a Gut Punch

What Does This Day Hold?

Living Christianity

Esteeming Ourselves

What’s Still Wrong With This Picture?

We Are Powerless

To Admit Together

Community

Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Our Problem with Prayer

Praying Seriously

Evil is Real, But . . .

Start Here to Understand Evil

The Evil Beyond Bad

Defining Faith

Church as a Salt Shaker

The Salt in a Tear

Salty Glowing Believers

God’s Glow Sticks

Earth’s Salt People

I Lose When I Compare Myself to Others

Seeing Christianity

Faith or Fear

Marcus Aurelius

Mean Versus Offensive

All I Have in this Life is Now

Short-term Mission Trips

Praying in Agreement

Understanding Context

The Climate Change Movement

Reading CS Lewis

Who Do You Hear?

It’s Gonna Be Okay

Setting Us Free

Preparing for Miracles

Who Was And Is JC?

Haunting Shame

A Story in Ten Words

The Blame Game

On Practicing for a Living

Poverty and Wealth are Attitudes First

Have a Great Day!

Don’t Live By Mistake

Feelings are Real

If I See It I Must Have It

There Are No Dumb Questions

Accepting Humility

The Dumbest Thing in the World

Can You imagine Being Well?

That's What the Lonely Is For

Milk Carton Kids

Science and God

Arguing With Words

Rethinking How Best to Live

Reality

An Interesting Twist

How To Be Free

An Age Old Question

The Problem of Other People's Problems

A Promise Most Do Not Accept

Sacrificial Love

The Power of Commitment

Security in Scary Times

Perfecting Love

Love and Disrespect

Love and Arrogance

Recovery Requires Rescue

Control and Recovery

Mature Love

The Way of Love

Boastful Love

Love or Envy

Love is Kind

Love is Patient

Love and Words

The Important Silence of Love

Love and Heart Break

Love’s Impostor

Love’s Twin

Love Defined

Pop Love

On Love

That's What the Lonely Is For

Why We Need Church

How Life Works

But Not Today

When Praying Becomes Routine

Tears for Another

A Prayer Problem

Does Believing in God Matter to Society?

Do Relationships Matter?

Truth Floats

Memorial Day

Talkers and Feelers

God Explained

Nothing is as Planned

On Shame

Break in the Cup

Prayer and Selfishness

We Know the End

Attempting to Understand

Common Denominators

Notes to Self

Though He Slay Me

How God Answers Job

Let Go and Let God

Walking Through Grief

Mending Wall

Perfectionism

Bad Education and Entertainment

A Different Way to See the World

The Land of the Living

Trust Us

I Am Weakest When

On True Love

How the Honeymoon Ends

The Skill of Silence

Inadequacy

A Tough Lesson

People Can Change Dramatically

Intimacy with God

Performance Gifts

Serving Options

Regrets

A Bad Habit of Mine

Your Purpose

Pain Isolates

Attempting to Understand

Inexplicable Peace

Some Uncertainty is Predictable

Footfalls Echo

Living in What If

Pressing the Mind

Selecting the Right Cross

Rushing Past

Thoughts from a Fifty-Year High School Reunion

Why Love Messy People

Self-Pity

Burnout

Two Uncomfortable Religious Words

God Answers Job

Resurrection Power

Before, After

If, Then

Having Fights With Loved Ones

Starting Somewhere

Spoiler Alert

Faith is Loving God Back

Breaking Down Barriers

Happy Palm Sunday

Why Faith?

I Hate to Admit

Why Didn’t Jesus Marry?

Conspiracy or Worldview?

Who Writes Like This?

Fear

Misinformation

How to Enjoy Serenity

Controlling the Imagination Through Better Thinking

Have Faith

Innocence

Perspectives on Pride

The Lie Within Failure

A Higher Power

Rock of Ages

Diagnoses Don’t Define

We Assume Too Much

Today

Who I am

God as My Father

Arguments in the Home

The Problem With Prayer

What are the Odds?

Pain, God, and Others

Real Diversity

Miracles

Why Did Jesus Wait Thirty Years

Making Sense out of Nonsense

The Duty of a Husband’s Brother

Grief Can Temper the Soul

Annoyance

The Gospel and Everything Good

Why Anyone Goes to Their First Al-Anon Meeting

Authenticity

Speed Reading Revisited

Super-Rich

How Effective is Alcoholics Anonymous?

What is the Least Appreciated Gift?

Beautiful Feet

What's At Stake

A Peace

Are We Seeing Revival?

Trains

Slow Growth

Four Impossible Chasms Between Ruth and Boaz

The Talkative Nature of God

Happy Valentines Day

Nothing But

The Work of Understanding

Prayer Clarifies, Convicts, and Creates

Two Good People Meet

Doing the Next Good Thing

Call Me Mara

A Foreshadowing of Mary

Orpah Goes Home

What’s So Special About Naomi?

Naomi Heads Home

Are You in Moab?

From Loss to Life

The Wisdom of Fearing God

A Troubling Verse Until You Need It

Emotional Babies

Grownups

Climbing Out of Holes

Unbaked Cake

Rebranding Church

Exposing Scientific Dogmas

My Testimony at a Men's Retreat

We, Not I

The Problem with Faith

My Testimony Take Away

I Expect

You’re Welcome

When Humor Wounds

Tell Me Your Story

The Biggest Lie is This

The Set Up

Two Bible Reading Paradigms

The Most Effective Lies

A Paradigm Question

Giving Testimony

The Problem of Paradigms

Most Important Possession

My Assignment

The Path Toward Happiness

Processing Regrets

How to Fix the Past

If You Loved Me . . .

Church Problems

The Splendor of Holiness

The Best Resolutions