Spiritual Growth

In Shakespeare’s tragic play King Lear, an old monarch slowly loses his grip on sanity and begins to believe the worst of virtually everyone around him. As his descent into dementia accelerates, one brave soul tries desperately to help Lear see that hi …

God knows about your failures and still has a dream for your life, a dream that He hasn’t necessarily put on hold until you get your act together.

In junior high I had a short-lived interest in latch hook. For those who don’t know, latch hook is that form of pseudo-sewing where you use a latched hook (duh) to loop yarn into a grid-like backing and make rugs, pillows, wall hangings and other fuzzy …

If you’re as ancient as me, you might remember the band 38 SPECIAL. (Some of you are nodding; most of you are going, “Who?”). One of the group’s biggest hits was a song about a certain mistake guys make. “Hold on Loosely” counseled over-eager suitors n …

As a kid going to church, I became accustomed to traditional wooden pew seating, and singing the first, second and last verses of 15th-century hymns. Later I moved into the non-denominational realm where contemporary worship songs and edgy sermon title …