Essays

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…

Weary Warriors

Does this statue look like you? Are you a weary warrior, fighting to stay atop your equally weary mount? This sculpture, called The End of…

Like Jove in Thunder

“He burst forth on the world like Jove in thunder.” I first heard this evocative phrase in my freshman political science class in college when…

Bitter Herbs

Do you remember when you first learned to swallow whole pills instead of having them smashed up and mixed in with your applesauce or some…

The Lord’s Prayer Three Times Daily

The Didache (pronounced did-akh-ay) is a first-century document that reportedly captured and preserved the central teachings of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles in clear, succinct form.…