When you encounter a small adversity in your day, what is your first impulse: 1. Do you call and tell a friend 2.Do you vent and let off steam with your spouse 3. Do you just "let it all out" to anyone who is willing to listen. Survey says…where is number 4? Good question. ...

Here lately I seem to be worrying about the silliest stuff. What does it mean in Matthew 6:25, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear?" This sounds like it would be so easy to achieve only we humans...

Let me start by saying that patience is something I struggle with greatly.  I want to jump out of my skin when I’m waiting for an answer from someone, and when one of my children is dawdling over their breakfast, I can flip out pretty easily.  Impatience is a sin I have to confess...

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot It is striking how so many Christians bump along in life, never learning how to live their lives abundantly. God’s covenant with...

In 1994, Immaculée Ilibagiza survived the genocide in Rwanda by hiding with seven other women in a 3′ by 4′ bathroom for 91 days. She entered the bathroom a vibrant, 115-pound college student. She emerged weighing just 65 pounds to find that her family had been brutally...