Don’t get me wrong–I love kids, but those ages 10 to 13 plagued by hormonal surges, a sordid home life, and a propensity to tune-out authority figures, light a fire under my prayer life. So it was, when I walked into an inner-city school to substitute for the P.E. teacher, ...
Read More »How to Prepare Your Children for Life
“Point your kids in the right direction—when they’re old they won’t be lost.” Proverbs 22:6 No one was ready for what occurred on January 12, 1888, across the northwest plains of America. In the days leading up to that fateful January day, the weather had been mild and unusually warm ...
Read More »BeliefMap: The Apologetics Tool You’ve Been Searching For
In my new book One of the Few, I combine my passion for apologetics with the power of story. But before I was a Christian, you would have been correct to tell me, as the evil Emporer in Star Wars might have: “You don’t know the power of the dark side.” ...
Read More »When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
Dear friend, I see you. I see your smile. I also see through your façade. I am very adept at playing the game all too well. The one you love is battling the dark, and you are running out of light. Your heart is begging for a flicker, a spark, ...
Read More »Moving The Heart To Make Societal Changes
What is it that drives some people over the edge? What is it that will motivate them to be defiant, to do the unreasonable? To do, what is to them, the unthinkable? Is it exclusively rebellion and sin that can cause an otherwise reasonable, law-abiding citizen to carry out outrageous ...
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