Does your Christian life make you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle?If it does, you’re not alone. You are so not alone. Fellow pilgrims, the narrow way can be brutal. Our God is doing big things in us! To…

“I wouldn’t give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn’t have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.” — Senator Jefferson Smith (Jimmy…

I finally went back to church. We live and work in the Nashville area, and absolutely love it. Eileen and I have been blessed to live and minister from the East Coast to the West Coast, and nearly back again.…

Were I to die unexpectedly, and my Spotify playlist to be discovered, what in the world would they think of me? I mean, there’s everything on there from Michael W. Smith to Toto to Aretha Franklin to Electric Light Orchestra…

“He has also set eternity in the human heart …” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). One summer’s day in 1647, in Paris, René Descartes, one of the best-known voices in the history of western philosophy – and the man who coined the phrase,…

I’m seeing a lot of strong public comments being made by which professing Christians are impugning the character of others. The divisions seem to run so deep that we’re talking over each other … and around each other …  but…

Something happened 2000 years ago. Not just something, but someone: Jesus of Nazareth. Since the dawn of human civilization, plenty of people have made plenty of religious claims about life and eternity. Many have claimed to know the secrets to…

I was told by the mission team that recently accompanied me to Armenia that this is their favorite photo of me from our trip. I suppose it captures both our purpose and our joy. After all, we traveled to the…

You’re looking at my view late Monday from the Armenian village of Ujan, about half an hour from Yerevan, where my fellow mission team members and I are building a playground for children. The photo can’t do justice to the…

Three Dog Night sang, “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” I’ve been walking our congregation through the book of Ecclesiastes, and Chapter 4 has confronted all of us with the problem of aloneness. As I looked at…