God Can Redeem What You Hate About Your Past
Memoirist Mary Karr said, “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” In a culture littered with filtered selfies, photo shopped profile pictures, pristine bios, and social media updates that for the most part, document only the best moments of our lives (I’m guilty too); Karr’s words are a relief […]
Remembering What Is True
Martin Luther is often quoted as the one who said, “We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.” Although I can’t verify Luther was the one who said it, we can all agree it’s true. In a similar vein, author and theologian Henri Nouwen said, “One of the great […]
What Can a Navy SEAL Teach Us About Seeking Recognition?
In the rigors of Navy SEAL training, the “sugar cookie” is among the most dreaded disciplines. It entails the trainee wearing a wet uniform and falling face down in the sand and rolling side to side until no crevice of his body is left uncovered with sand. For the rest of the day, the SEAL […]
Avoiding Spiritual Drift
The world-renowned Olympic runner, Louis Zamperini, was serving in WWII when his plane crashed in the South Pacific. Only Zamperini and two others survived the accident. Days later one of the three survivors perished in the harsh elements of the Pacific ocean. For forty-seven days Zamperini and his only surviving comrade floated on life rafts […]