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The Virgin Birth

Frosty the Snowman and Christmas

The Family is Under Attack

Learning to Listen Without Offering Advice

Changing a Mind

Joseph — a Christmas Hero

Thinking and Learning as Skills

Pandemic Reflections

The Foolish Ambition

Bible Study Tips

It Only Glows When

Great Teachers, Parents, and Evangelists

What it Means to Inherit the Earth

Who Inherits the World?

Life’s Deep Pains

The Land of No Sadness

Spiritual Poverty

Losing Hope

A Gratitude Story

Unworthy Servants

Thankfulness For Emotions

Thankfulness For What I Lack

Thanksgiving When God Makes No Sense

A Holiday Reflection

Thanksgiving For Discernment

Thanksgiving for Sports, Parades, and Ballet

Thanksgiving for Aches and Pains

Thanksgiving for Babies

The Discipline of Thanksgiving

Betting the Farm

Setting Course

Start at Empty

What is Effective Prayer?

Flipping The Switch

God’s Job Description

Aim Well

To Be A Christian

The Wrong Conclusion

“All” is a Big Word

No Agenda

The End of R

Prayer is Always a Response

Humility is the Great Healer

Starting Your Day

Meeting Boredom

The Election of 2024

Perseverance

When Life is a Gut Punch

A Fly in the Ointment

All My Life

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

We Are Powerless

To Admit Together

But Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

We Think Prayer Is What It Isn’t

Taking Prayer Seriously

Choose Wisely

Evil’s Nature

Is Evil Real?

The Best Way to Live

The Church as Salt Shaker

The Salt in Tears

Salty Glowers

Glow Sticks

Salt People

When I Compare Myself to Others

The Apostles Creed

When We Worry

Marcus Aurelius

Conflict Ownership

Future Uncertainty

Remembering a Short-term Mission Trip

The Spirit’s Fruit

The Cut Flower Culture

The Benefit of People Praying Out Loud Together

Being Wise Rather Than Just Nice or Clever

Woodrow Wilson and Modern Political Manipulations

Time Well Spent

Who is Defining You?

The Way Back

Setting Us Free

Inside Jobs

Jesus

Haunting Shame

Who’s to Blame?

Practicing for a Living

Is God Mean?

Church — Male and Female

Poverty and Wealth are Attitudes First

Young Men Becoming More Interested in Attending Church

Somebody Prayed

Recovery From Codependency

The Melancholy Mentality

Thinking Through Traumatic Feelings

If I See It I Must Have It

Asking Questions in Public

Mindless Exaggerations

What is True Healing?

Humility — the Least Attractive Virtue

Science and God

Word Fights

Tattoos and Piercings

Where Are We?

Rethinking How Best to Live

The Need For Healthy Conversations

Being Impatient and in a Hurry

Security in Scary Times

Our Problem With Other People's Problems

Misinformation

Control and Recovery

Looking at Life From a Weak Worldview

Back to Basics

How the Super-Rich Think

Nothing is as Planned

That's What the Lonely Is For

Why We Need Church

Truth Floats

How Life Works

Words and Creativity

But Not Today

When Praying Becomes Routine

The Power of Forgiveness

Tears for Another

Does Believing in God Matter to Society?

The Power to Live Forgiven

More About Living Forgiven

The Risk of Living Too Close to Elections

Forgiveness

Do Relationships Matter?

Talkers and Feelers

Break in the Cup

Shame

Seeing Isn’t Believing

Prayer and Selfishness

I Hope You Know the End

What Understanding Doesn’t Solve

Challenging My Own Strong Misguided Opinions

Things That Bug Me

Though He Slay Me

Does God Care?

Let Go and Let God

The Religious Foundation of our Secular Education

Walking Through Grief

Mending Wall

When Blindness is a Choice

One Word on a Sign

Why Did Jesus Wait Thirty Years?

Perfectionism

Detaching

The Destructive Effect of a Poor Education

Pain and Affluence

Another Way to View the World

The Land of the Living

The Habit of Hate

Trust Us

A Thought About Love

I Am Weakest When

What is True Love?

How the Honeymoon Ends

The Skill of Silence

Inadequacy

A Tough But True Lesson

People Can Change Dramatically

The Truest Fruit of My Faith

Intimacy with God

Performance Gifts

Serving Options

Regrets

Reflexively Running to Fear

T. S. Eliot’s Statement of Faith

How To Be Free

What Your Purpose Isn’t

Pain Isolates

Trying to Understand

Inexplicable Peace

How We Change

Some Uncertainty is Predictable

Reconciliation Among the Stars

Long Forgotten Wars

Garlic and Sapphires in the Mud

Permission

Back to Burnt Norton

Footfalls Echo

Living In - What If?

Pressing Our Minds

Take Your Stand

Burnout

Self-Pity

Evil is Real

God’s Most Surprising Attribute

Everything Begins Here

Faith is a Choice

What was God Thinking?

Expanding Circles of Influence

Your Amazing Story

Conspiracy or Worldview?

Beautiful Feet

The Greatest Conflict of Our Lives

Humble Leaders

Who Writes Like This?

Fear

Enjoying Serenity

On Writing and Rest

How Truth Sets Someone Free

Labels Don’t Define Us

Controlling the Imagination Through Better Thinking

Have Faith

Innocence

Pride

The Lie Inside Failure

An Honor to Serve

Gratitude, Attitude, and Endurance

Is Life Now Good Enough?

The Trinity

A Higher Power

Selah

Rock of Ages

Assumptions About Others

Today is a Gift

More Thoughts About Talking Into The Dark

Cults

Who I am

Finding God as My Father

The Blessing of Imperfection

A Tribute To My Mom

Healthy and Unhealthy Arguments

Life is

The Problem With Prayer

What Are The Odds?

Jesus and Our Pains

Pain, Others, and God

The Soul and the Fool

True Diversity

God’s Love

Mysteries and Miracles

Nonsense and the Scientific Mind

Grief Can Temper the Soul

Our Greatest Problem

Annoyances

I Know It Sounds Simple

The Gospel and Everything Good

Why Anyone Goes to Their First Recovery Meeting

What Does It Take To Become Authentic?

A Past Purpose for Poetry

Higher Education Hype

Finding Water in a Barren Life

Living the Parched Life

What is the Least Appreciated Gift?

Trains and Truth Derailments

Slow Growth

The Talkative Nature of God

Nothing But

Fearing God is a Good Idea

Poor Listening Skills

A Troubling Verse

Emotional Babies

Grownups

Climbing Out of Holes

Addictions and Blessings

Unbaked Cake

Facts Can Be Uncomfortable

Rebranding Church

Exposing Scientific Dogmas

We, Not I

The Problem with Faith

Resurrection Power

The Most Important Day

If, Then

Starting Somewhere

Spoiler Alert

Faith is Loving God Back

I Expect

Here’s the Biggest Lie of All

The Set Up

Seeing Reality When Studying

The Most Effective Lies

A Paradigm Question

Giving Testimony

Making Progress by Doing Nothing

The Surprise of Service

Church Problems

The Problem of Paradigms

The Path Toward Happiness

Sin is Rough

How to Fix the Past

“If You Loved Me . . .”

See Shells

We Will Never Come Close to Earning God’s Approval.

Losing Control and Finding God

Ascribe

Hassles of Living

The Deep Sob

The Celebrity Culture

The Difference Between God and Me

Vanity of Vanities

Think It Through

And the Wisdom to Know the Difference

The Maze We Are In

I Saw God Today

It’s a Religion

The Longings of a Fairy Story

True Myth

On Writing and Criticism

Perhaps Love

The Belt of Truth

Test the Spirits

Timeless and Timely 2

Timeless and Timely

Spiritual Clothing

Why We Wear Clothes

Look Around and See What You See

A Day in the Life of Your Cells

How We Change

Laughter as Medicine

God Knows Best

Judgment

Knowing the End From the Beginning

Where to Plant a Tree

We Become Our Obsession

The Blessing of Avoiding

Transformational Faith

Coming in out of the Wind

Pie in the Sky Anyone?

Keep Coming Back

Kindness

Attraction

The Stockdale Paradox

Competition and Conflict

Looking at Elections

Conflict as it Relates to Marriage

Sticky Friends

Fear and Imagination

A Time for Choosing

The Last Straw

What Children Most Need

Sacred Dollars

Finding My Voice

We Can’t Understand God

Common Sense is Anything but Common

What it Took to Make You

Either Be All In Or

No Secrets

Steely Resolve

How to be Forgiven.

The Addict’s Conflict

If We Don’t Believe in Miracles

Counting the Cost

People Are Complicated

Thought For Today

Are Families Really a Problem?

Real Hell

Thought For Today

Suffering

Thought for Today

Doormatamorphosis

Best Resolutions I Can Think Of

A New Year’s Resolution Recommendation