I have been reading and studying the gospel of Matthew along with friends in my church, and it has been pretty mind blowing. This Sunday I am going to be speaking from Matthew 13, where Jesus likens our hearts to soil.
For me personally, the analogy is challenging. Have I let what is true be choked [...]

It’s still so unreal. I have a Haitian friend who works in the Dominican Republic; his wife and children live in Haiti. When the earthquake hit, he emailed me to tell me he was going home and wasn’t sure where his family was, or if they were okay.
I don’t know what that’s like. It broke [...]

I realize how valuable new starts are. It’s a challenging, encouraging feeling to have a blank canvas, a newly tilled field, an open road. Fresh commitments are fueled by the thought: “This time I’m going to make it! I can feel it!”
It’s why January is considered the most disciplined month of the year. We have [...]

Maybe He should have hired a firm.
The advent of Christ was a time-splitting event, forever altering history and human hearts. You would think God could have thought through a better marketing plan.
A young mother, painfully pregnant, stuck in Bethlehem for a government census (the timing!). While in town for the census, she goes into labor, [...]