How to Make the World a Little Less Lonely

If the firstborn in a family is a girl, the younger children often end up with a bonus feature; they get two mothers instead of one! Big sisters are often happy to be another mother for her younger siblings, whether they’re happy about it or not! But the...

Beauty in Broken Shells

My wife and I were enjoying a wonderful few days of rest on the Gulf Coast of Florida. And one of our favorite things to do is to walk the beach, even though we can’t seem to agree on how fast to walk. See, I’ve always been Mr. Aerobics and she was always...

How Your Weakness Makes You Strong

Our son can usually tell when the weather’s about to change. His knee is his own personal “weather channel.” Now I know he seems like he might be young to have pain like that, but it actually goes back to one day on a football field in high school....

Your Tribe, Your Mission

An upscale restaurant in Manhattan’s iconic Rockefeller Plaza, filled with Wall Street “movers and shakers.” A dusty reservation basketball court, surrounded by impoverished, hope-starved Native American young people. I’ve ministered in both...

How Good Soldiers Go Down

They had the mightiest armies ever seen up until that time. And yet the seemingly invincible legions of the Roman Empire eventually fell to ransacking hordes who were once confined to Rome’s far borders. What happened? Actually, many things happened that led to...