Essays

Your Top Three Words

Three words can sure say a lot, especially if they are clarifying words that follow a comma. Examples: “She is my mother, an amazing lady.”…

Lions Versus Tigers

Who would win in the ultimate catfight between a lion and a tiger?   We humans love to ask these kinds of questions don’t we?…

Seneca on Unshakable People

The famed, first-century Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, popularly known as just Seneca, shared some words about human nature and tough times that are…

Time is Your Friend

Modern society has upset the healthy rhythms of our lives. Rather than viewing time as a friend that enables us to prioritize our priorities and…

Wood Eating Ants

If someone were to use your life as a platform from which to teach or preach, would you be able to hold up his or…

Suffering in Your Context

Christian suffering is not limited to the extreme cases that we hear about in the media. Certainly, the horrific persecutions of Christians (and other religious…

On Fears and Vampires

What are the top fears that are fighting against your confidence and faith in this season of your life? Are they fears of rejection? Failure?…

Athletes and Artists

You are supposed to be both. For the masterpiece of your life to be fully unveiled, it will require both the disciplined striving of an athlete and the…

Body Art for a New Generation

In recent years, our culture has increasingly fallen in love with body art. Today, everyone from athletes to executives to students and mothers of small…