Winston Churchill said many years ago, "If you cannot change your mind, you cannot change anything." “That is a true fact,” as my teenage daughter would say. Nothing is more habitual than the pattern of our thoughts. Nothing prevents us from progress like our...
There seems to be a chronic shortage of love across our country and around the globe, with turmoil caused by anger, antisemitism, prejudice, and hatred. As Christians, however, we have unlimited access to an eternal fountain of love that never fails or runs dry. We...
LISTEN TO DEVOTIONAL Would you like to know how a world-famous athlete keeps amazing the world decade after decade? At over 40 years old, NBA superstar, LeBron James credits his consistent longevity and incredible success—not to doing more, but to rest. “Sleep...
Where do you draw the line? I thought of that issue when Brother Andrew—the man often described as “God’s Smuggler”—sat at lunch with me and a group of friends and told of being severely criticized because he had reached out to the Hezbollah, in an attempt to bring...
I’m talking about relationship with fellow humans, real people with personal connections. Interaction that feels right and makes you a better person. Real people, honest people, humble people connecting and keeping those connections. Often, we call these...
When I started talking about personal finance many years ago, the questions I usually got were about how to budget properly, where to invest or how to prepare for retirement. These are important conversations, and I still teach them today. But after close to four...
We are born with features we didn’t choose—our height, our skin tone, our face, our build. Society often tells us that appearance defines value. But Scripture and life remind us otherwise: our future is shaped more by perspective than by physical traits. It is not how...
Every new year invites us to dream again—new goals, new habits, new resolve. For some, these resolutions take root and flourish. Yet others feel stuck before they even begin. The problem is not always a lack of desire or discipline. More often, it is the weight of...
As we begin a new year, many of us look for a fresh start. We set new goals and intentions, hoping that this year will be different in some way. But the greatest new beginning doesn’t come from trying harder; it comes from believing the truth about what Jesus has...
Out of the mouths of babes come some of the hardest issues that ever confront theologians, to say nothing of Sunday school teachers or parents. For example, the question that my son, then five years of age, once put to me in rush-hour traffic: “Daddy,” he said, “how...