“Why are you so grouchy today?” Mike asked me one morning. “Am I?” I hadn’t noticed it, but I realized maybe he was right. The truth was, I wasn’t looking forward to the day ahead. It was just one of those days filled with a bunch of mundane, necessary chores. Nothing...

“Good people go to heaven, and bad people go to hell.” This is a common belief that I’ve heard many times from people around me. Where does this idea come from? Although it is a popular mindset, it is just a random theory, based on absolutely nothing. And it’s...

When things go wrong, we get angry. And it seems natural to take our anger out on the one who is in control of everything: God. God, how could you let this terrible thing happen? If you are sovereign, you could have stopped it! How could you let me down like this?...

Remember the days of waiting a whole week to watch the next episode of your favorite show? Or wanting to hear that song again but being at the mercy of the radio station to play it? Those days are over. No more waiting! Now we can binge-watch entire seasons of shows...

The older I get, the more I realize how little I know. A perfect example is Church on the Street. When my kids were grade school age, every now and then I would take them to Church on the Street. Church on the Street is exactly that: a church service held in a...

Every time I pull up to our house after a long day. I know I will see the silhouettes of our two pugs in the front window, sitting on their bench, eagerly awaiting the arrival of their owners. As soon as they see my car, they immediately jump up and run to the back...

The painting “Checkmate” by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch has fascinated people for hundreds of years. It’s a brilliant depiction of the classic battle of good versus evil playing out in the pieces on a chess board. Satan triumphantly eyes his opponent, who bends...

“So what helped you get over the loss of your daughter?” a friend of mine asked with deepest sincerity.  I stood spellbound, not having a clue how to answer. It had been barely three months since Lexi had passed away, and I was nowhere near being “over” her loss....

What happens when we do everything we are supposed to do, but things don’t work out the way they’re supposed to work out? “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) Yep. Check. Did that! So why did our...

No doubt about it, sometimes life is painful. When tragic things happen, and life doesn’t make sense, there is one thing we can know with absolute certainty: that through everything that happens to us, God is working on our hearts. Sometimes a good metaphor, or word...