5 Bible Verses on Anxiety & Why You Need Them

Last fall I went to see the theater adaptation of C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters at the Tennessee Performing Art Center. The Christian classic is a series of thirty-one fictional letters written in the voice of the senior demon, Screwtape, as he instructs his nephew Wormwood, on how to derail the life of a […]

Quit Walking On Eggshells

There are some people who say “no” to just about everything. In his book, The Grace Awakening, Charles Swindoll describes people who have “no faces” and “yes faces.” I bet you know a few of each. A couple weeks ago I was delayed at the airport in Washington D.C. and the airline employee working at […]

2 Things I Pray For Every Day

One of the things I’ve learned over the last twenty years is I’m often not wise enough to know how to pray. Oh, you can bet that I have opinions about what I want and how I think things should go. It’s just that my track record for knowing what’s best is inconsistent. Sometimes I […]

Christianity Is Not a List of Things to Avoid

A couple of days ago, John and I were at Strand Books on the corner of 12th Street and Broadway in New York City. Strand has been in business since 1927 and boasts the tagline, “18 miles of books.” By the looks of the inventory, the claim is no exaggeration. At the back of the […]