Ours is a suspicious, angry, and anxious age. Who can I trust? Who has my back? Who is interested in my well-being? Who is genuinely for me in this world, if anyone at all? Collectively it seems we are a wary and deeply wounded people, always on high alert. Fight or flight. Our blood pressure is setting new medical records. The needle rarely quivers below red. In the last so many years we’ve learned to thoroughly question the motives ofRead more

I’ve fallen out of love with Facebook.Read more

God won’t force his bride to be intimate, or thankful, or respectful, or love him back with a shred of warmth. Read more

You want the first-fruits of the kingdom, but you don’t want the King.Read more

Where are you so busy defending your own dignity that you neglect the humanity of your own neighbor?Read more

When the teachers of the law asked Jesus, “What is the greatest commandment?” his answer should have surprised exactly no one.

He offered them the prayer of Sh’ma.Read more

Everyone at church annoyed me to infinity.Read more

A dinner conversation with the kids about guns, schools, and God.Read more

Houston, we have a blessing.Read more

When all you want is sleep, but God decides it’s time to wrestle…Read more