If you’re like me and you’re finishing your Christmas shopping (or just getting started), you’re wondering what gifts to give to the remaining friends and family members on your list. This year as I’ve been thinking about gifts, I’ve had a slightly dif …
There are two types of people in the world: those who listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving and those who wait until the day after Thanksgiving to partake in the music of the most wonderful time of the year. Singer/songwriter Brandon Heath is o …
Listen folks: Somebody’s probably going to mess up Christmas for you this year. So, what are you going to do in the face of disappointment?
Back at the beginning of November, I wrote about how my pastor had told a story about being thankful in the midst of difficult times (“Changed by Thankfulness”). I was struck by his illustration, and I decided to let it shape a spiritual discipl …
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything.” —Timothy Keller, The Meanin …
“I HATE her; she doesn’t even try to understand me,” I slammed my 15-year-old fists into the unyielding gray dashboard vinyl of my dad’s red Nissan Sentra. Her, in this case, was my mother, and this was an all-too familiar scene in my teenage life. My …
I recently wrote a post called “Three Easy Ways to Ruin a First Date,” which provided advice on how to make a first date want to run away from you and never call back. My suggestions were: 1) Propose (or at least talk about marriage enough to ma …
After describing the frustration I used to feel over Christian community and how it wasn’t happening for me, I got rolling on the real help I found in Acts 2 for growing community in my life. I couldn’t stop. In addition to the five ideas I sha …
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