I’m often befuddled by how impossible it is to write on the experience I’ve had countless times — joy in suffering.  It frustrates me that I...

Entitlement is a funny word.  In a concrete sense, it depicts what we deserve — what we’re entitled to.  But when we take the word from noun...

Encountering moments of truth is not always a pleasant experience.  One such recent moment I was acting out of self-righteous hurt in a rela...

Hebrews 12:2 says in part, “For the joy set before him he endured the cross.”   The only time I knew my faith pleased God was when I respond...

22 years ago to these very days, days I did not know if I would or could endure, I did endure, one day at a time.  Those days, some darker t...

I never thought in my hardest, loneliest days – 22 years ago now – that those would also be the times I felt closest to God.   Not that I’m ...

I spoke at church last Sunday on the call placed on Barnabas and Saul prior to them being sent to the nations of the world (Acts 13:1-3), es...