All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal The picture you see here was taken...

Today I finished a full loop from my tiny house, a full 3.5 miles, with only a little bit of walking and I can safely say that I’m nearly...

Meanwhile, there’s a verse in the Bible that says, “above all else guard your heart”, for from it flow the wellsprings of life.”  I’ve...

What’s going on?  Why does Joe Rogan have 30 million podcasts downloads each month?  And, more cogent to this blog and my own musings:...

One of the great paradoxes of Christianity is that there isn’t a single thing we can do save ourselves, transform ourselves, or grow...

On Sunday November 25th I’ll be speaking at all our Bethany locations on the very important subject of how to turn spiritual disciplines...

It’s no news that we live in a world of increasing insanity, where daily headlines serve to remind us that humanity is collectively, like...

You’ve been ripped off I mean to live this year as if it were my last, and will hate every time I fall below that standard and fritter...

“Nebuchadnezzar said to them: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: Is it true that you don’t serve my gods or worship the gold statue I’ve...

“Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.  Moses...

The training of the body of is vital for people like us, who have spent most of our waking hours during adulthood sitting in chairs.  ...

The Achilles story is appropriate  because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes.   Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...

Our children are growing, as we do too, slowly; imperceptibly every day. The meat in the crock pot is tenderizing; slowly. Our world,...

what skills are needed to get to the future? Graduation is in the air, and David Brooks’ excellent article about the wrong-headed...

there's a new way to live...better, freer It’s available for all of us.  It’s not contingent (thank God) on circumstances.  It’s able to...

I’ve felt this way too much in 2010, and so I’m heading back to “first things”, foundational truths that are considered foundational...

If we’re going to live our lives well, we’re going to need to take out the garbage.  The pain we’re carrying, the lies we believe, the...

Thee gospel clearly speaks to God’s intention for the world to be a place characterized by political and economic peace and freedom, and...

How about this:  “…be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God” ...

This is one of the most liberating verses in the Bible.  When I began college, right after my dad had died, I was intent on “making my...