What motivates you? Are you career minded? Kid focused? Do you live for the weekend? Is health your motivator? I will often motivate...

Following Jesus is incredibly personal, but it was never meant to be done alone. Jesus is honored by our intentional pursuit of Him...

How do we view others? Some people walk into a room and feel alive with the buzz of people, energized at the potential of new friends!...

“When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about...

Planned or unplanned we find ourselves at the end of each year looking back wondering and asking, what happened? What did I accomplish?...

Have you ever wondered why we say “Merry Christmas” instead of Happy Christmas? We say Happy Birthday, Happy Easter, and Happy Mother’s...

How do we impact a culture that less and less cares about what we have to say as Christians? Short answer: We live like Jesus. If that is...

What do you do when an issue does not have clarity in scripture? Or better yet, what do you do when opposing views believe the issue is...

How do you read the bible? When you open your bible on your phone or the one that sits on your shelf, what runs through your mind? Are...

What if, instead of being frustrated at the over-commercialization of the Christmas season, we saw it as an opportunity? I get the idea...

I am meeting more and more people who feel like spiritual orphans. They grew up in a church, they went off to college, started a career,...

Do I share my story? Do I share friend’s stories? Do I pick on a denomination? Do I pull a quote from the New York Times? Sadly, abuse of...

I follow Jesus, not the bible. Obviously. Yet, even as I write that it causes an unease and I am sure for many who have grown up in...

Have you asked others for grace? Or like me, have you received an email that said, “thanks for your grace” as a not-so-subtle way of...

We live in a cultural moment that seems hopeless. We do not yet have the benefit of hindsight or the perspective that time brings to...

How much time and energy do I spend wondering what others think of me? There is something inside all of us that wants others to think...

We often subconsciously assume that our pastors and church staff are wise and thus our expectation is they won’t fail us. We don’t really...

Which translation do you use? What is the point of this question? Is it genuine? Or, does it come with some agenda seeking to prove why...

I recently had to "find" another church. Through a complicated and compelling pile of circumstances I found myself looking. I also found...

You may be familiar with Rick Warren or John Piper, but digging a little deeper here are a few names of people with less followers and...