Essays

Rock bottom. It is a stark, jarring phrase that we use to describe that desperate place where people’s lives have fallen apart, when they have…

“Let us run with endurance the race set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1) As Christians, each of us is running toward a prize. The Apostle Paul…

“Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. ‘Pathetic,’ he said. ‘That’s what it…

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. That is decent advice for some areas of our lives; however, when it comes to our key relationships,…

There are two kinds of new songs: re-treads and originals. Which one is your soul singing? Psalm 149:1 exhorts us, “Sing to the Lord a…

Leaders must be dealers in hope. That is what Napoleon said (not Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor who nearly conquered the world). Napoleon…

He hungered—yet He fed thousands. He thirsted—yet He exclaimed, “Whosoever thirsts, let him come to me and drink.” He was tired—yet He is the “rest”…

Have you ever had a Jacob’s ladder moment when heaven opened up above you? In Genesis 28, Jacob fell asleep, and in his dream-like state,…

Several years ago, a doctor wrote a small book entitled Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants. Understandably, the publishing company balked at the title, asserting that no one…