Don’t Lose Your Awe
One of the reasons our lives become boring is we lose our awe of God. In doing so, we settle for an existence filled with restless distraction. C.S. Lewis wrote in his book, The Weight of Glory, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an […]
Reason To Believe
It was near the end of my senior year of high school, and I’d had a miserable semester. As I looked toward the blackboard, the lenses of my eyeglasses were scratched, my bangs hung in my face because I was in desperate need of a haircut, and I felt like a poster child for the […]
Why More Than 90 Percent of American Christians Are Vulnerable
According to recent research from the Barna group, only 8.5 percent of American adults are reading their Bibles daily. [1]. There was a time when Scripture memory was a common component of Christian discipleship, but at this point, most Christians aren’t even reading Scripture let alone memorizing it. I have no desire to lecture, but […]
To the Depressed & Fearful: You’ve Got a Friend in the Psalms
Have you ever felt so depressed it was an effort to hold up your head? Have you ever suspected that life is a sham and the game is stacked against you? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you’d find good company with King David. On numerous occasions, David had good reason to […]