WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING TO GOD’S TABLE
What do you bring to the table? This is a common question for a job interview, or during a corporate merger, or even when solving a group problem. But what if God asks the question?
LIFE IS SHORT — DON’T LET IT SLIP AWAY
As a young father, my life was filled with responsibilities. I wanted to earn a good wage, climb the allusive corporate ladder, and support my family well. I wanted them to have the best. It was more than making...
MY DOG THINKS I AM
The prayer, “Dear God, please make me the person my dog thinks I am” is probably more valid than what we usually ask for.
HOW TO GET OUT OF A BAD MARRIAGE
Marriage counselors, some of them proposing to be Christians, place more importance on assigning blame and assessing penalties than understanding the root of the problem. When there are difficulties in a marriage, one or the other in the couple...
COMMITMENT ISSUES
A man with “commitment issues” should remain entirely alone until he grows up. Period.
WHY DOES GOD ALLOW CHRISTIANS TO SUFFER?
There is no winning, no victory—you just have to keep moving forward an hour at a time, and hope you can do it just one more day. This is the consolation offered on a major television program to a...
WHEN YOU CAN’T FORGIVE
There’s someone you can’t seem to forgive. You know it’s God’s will, but forgiving them is more difficult than anyone else in your life because they don’t deserve it. Strangely, the person you can’t forgive is the same for...
WHERE YOUR HEART APPEARS TO BE
Go through your checkbook for the past few months and write down everything you spent money on. Do you like where your heart appears to be?
ARE YOU GOING TO BE MISSED?
Are you missed? We hope others notice when we’re not around. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say we want to be noticed when we are around.
THE KEY TO FINDING GOD’S WILL
Are our thoughts of fancy, bigger houses, or instead with new ways to reach the poor with food and clean water? Are we giving away what we don’t really want, pretending to be generous when we’re really just discarding...