Swagger is for the courageous—especially those young enough in years or vibrant enough in soul to make a difference.

When confusion arises—when you realize you are lost—it is customary to wander, searching, hoping aimlessly. The rule is, if you are lost, stop wandering. Stop. Your wandering confusion is making matters worse.

If we live and move and exist in Him, then God is engaged in every aspect of life.

Because the people thinking about politics are the same people passing laws that make killing a baby legal, I don't have the luxury of assessing their politics.

Killing babies is not a political perspective. It is a human issue.

Look around you. The message of the Incarnation is demonstrated in nearly everything you can see.

The question now in God’s mind is, How can I prove to my people that salvation and justification have changed them fundamentally, transformed them at their core?

I only want to know enough to get me by.

Any turn that is by divine definition a yielding of willfulness, is by definition a sufficient turn for God to seize upon His opportunity.

I have returned to the observation attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. “We are called to be witnesses for Christ, and every so often we must use words.”

For this article, I want to emphasize literature, thoughtfulness, and time.

Part of what’s troubling about being under the house in the dark is that you can’t see.

When I knock on a door, especially God’s door, I expect the one who is everywhere, all the time, to answer the door.

On the road to recovering your depleted soul, self-care is essential.

It isn’t only what happened to my actual work, but what happened to my work day and my work rhythm.

Unless I decided to walk away from thousands and thousands of dollars, I had no alternative but to stay in the cage.

You read my blog to consider along with me because you desire to make progress, to change, and to transform.

Looking to God may seem right, but it may not be sensible.

What of truth can be known, and is there any such thing as absolute truth, that is, truth without doubt or question?

Once we discovered the leak and fixed it, the saturated ground dried out and set our house back down, but not before cracking nearly every flat surface.