Treadmills, goals, and the life that God has for you.
Read MoreA cold wind, an unknown future, and a known God.
Read MoreThe next time you go to the store, I want you to notice something for me. When you go to check out, it is very likely that you will find yourself standing beside a rack of magazines. Several of those magazines are devoted to one purpose, and that is sharing with you the misery that is taking place in the lives of rich and famous people.
And if you are paying attention, believe it or not, those pitiful magazines can teach you a lesson that can change your life forever.
Read MoreThings are changing. Drastically, in fact.
Read MoreFun fact today for all you bug-lovers out there: every single summer, about 18 TRILLION mayflies all hatch at the same time on the upper Mississippi River, and they create a swarm so huge and disgusting that it can appear on weather radars. Just the dead ones can pile up deep enough to shut down bridges and fill up entire parking lots three feet deep.
So, knowing this makes me wonder… if every year brings 18 TRILLION new mayflies to the river, why does ANYBODY live anywhere near the Mississippi River at all??
Read MoreWater is a very good thing. We are all made up largely of water, we need to drink lots of it, and everything that we eat needs to drink lots of it, so it is a good thing when good water is easy to come by.
But no matter how good the water is, and no matter how much of it we drink, we will always need more.
With that in mind, one day a long time ago, Jesus was sitting by a well in the hottest part of a very hot day on the outskirts of a town where people did not like Him very much. And as He was sitting there, a lady that people also did not like very much came out to get some water.
Read MoreMuch of my life revolves around this thing that we call church. My office is at the church, people call me at the church, and I spend bunches of time planning for church. But here's where it gets weird--
Church is one of the most misused words in the English language.
Read MoreI am living through some crazy days right now.
Read MoreOne of the great things about being a Christian is that every single day comes with a built-in, life-shaping question:
If Jesus is Jesus... who should I be?
Read MoreIt’s funny to me how things work out sometimes.
It seems to me like there are times in life where people basically mess everything up, and yet everything works out. And there are other times in life where people basically do everything right, and yet everything falls apart.
Read MoreThere is a word that plays a surprisingly important role in my life these days, and that word is Hypocrite.
Nobody likes to think of themselves or anybody they like as a hypocrite, but in conversations about Christianity this word seems to come up all the time.
Read MoreI LOVE Thunderstorms.
I love to watch thunderheads rise up and build on the horizon. I love to watch the color of the clouds change and darken. I love the flash of the lightning, the crackle of the thunder. The rumble of the storm that you can almost feel in your chest as much as you hear it in your ears. For me, any day with a thunderstorm is a good one.
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