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"Discipline" is a word no one really likes to hear. It's uncomfortable and weighty, carrying all the semantic heft of correction,...

Happy January, everyone, and welcome back to my little corner of the world. I hope my thoughts find you rested, contemplative, and ready...

It's 10:30 p.m. and I'm sitting on the floor with my puppy, tired, but feeling that inner twist of inspiration that keeps me from calling...

Charles Dickens wrote a novel in 1860 about a poor boy whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of his "great expectations"—a...

I've been struggling. My focus has been all over the place, my energy has been low, and my "God-time" has been contesting with everything...

"Love" is one of those words we all think we understand. "I love you" is probably one of the first phrases we learn to say as kids. It's...

"To every thing there is a season" (Ecc. 3:1). Life is made up of seasons. Seasons of abundance and seasons of want, seasons of...

At a recent church event, I was praying for a friend with a few others when the focus shifted suddenly to me and my struggles. What...

My puppy, Reggie, is afraid of the garage. She loves going outside, bounds down the stairs no problem, trots out the garage door like the...

Excluding the candy swaps in fifth grade, February 14 has never really been on my radar, but the older I get the more my heart goes out...

I've been grappling lately with what C.S. Lewis calls "favourite wishes"—dreams or desires that are close to our hearts but must be...

I don't normally let more than a week slide by between posts, but I don't normally let myself off the hook in general, so this could be a...

"I pull you close to me when this life cuts deep But when everything gets easy it's easy not to keep you first." (Riley Clemmons, "When...

Christianity asks us to do a really hard thing when it comes to how we feel about ourselves. On one hand, we need to be brutally honest....

The moment I saw this Hebrew phrase on the page of Mark 7, I knew I had to blog about it. I knew because I felt called out by it....

Surprise—I'm still here! Although normally I try to post blogs even while I'm on vacation, this year, I decided to give myself a break...

I'm a passionate person. When I love something, I want other people to love it, too. And when that thing happens to be edifying,...

I talked last week about the human will. Well, I'm still talking about it. In Luke 18, Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. It was near the end of...

The title says it all. After a little hiatus to get myself organized and listen for God's guiding voice, I'm resurrecting the ol'...

I had a rough day last week. A Thursday, but if we're being honest, I wasn't feeling very Thankful. Some new-ish responsibilities at work...