“Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story– those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he gathered from the lands, from east to west, from north and south.” (Ps. 107:2-3 NIV) The longer I live, love, read, explore, and dig deeper into the things that make my heart sing or cry,…
In every generation are giants in the faith who fall after years of service in the ministry. Whether local pastors or major television personalities, their stories are splashed across the media, and their circumstances, secrets, and salvation are debated. Our reactions tend to vary. Some of us quietly turn our heads, hoping to be polite…
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle In The Last Battle, the final volume of The Chronicles of Narnia, Jewel the unicorn finds the…
The world will tell you that you aren’t good enough. You need to do this, buy that, and act like <insert the latest popular public figure here> to be loved and accepted. You need to have it all, be it all, and do it all. This is what is seen in our culture as “making…
It was early autumn. The leaves on the trees were golden as the afternoon sun slid behind the skyscrapers on my urban college campus. I stood at my professor’s car feeling alive. After a stimulating class discussion, I discovered another layer of thought with my fellow students. As I helped my professor with her bags,…
Early in my teaching career, an academic dean said to me and my colleagues, “You are the curriculum.” My life would educate my students as much as any textbook or lesson plan. Long after those first-year college students forgot how to structure an effective introductory paragraph or how to avoid run-on sentences, they would remember…