Words of Life

My decision to restore the old Carter family home set a miracle in motion in my life, though on that first night, it sure didn’t feel like it. A miracle is happening in your life too, even if you can’t quite see it. Jesus is making...

Friends, for the rest of your life remember this: The way you fight a lie is with the truth. Whoever knows the truth wins. And there are two truths that I want you to have a death grip on today.

In the rolling hills of a distant land stood a great city called Mentis. This city was unlike any other, for it existed within the mind of every person. At the center of Mentis, atop the highest hill, loomed an imposing fortress known as the Stronghold of Lies. For generations,…

Sometimes I wonder what the disciples first thought upon awakening the morning after the crucifixion, realizing the rabbi with whom they had invested the last three years of their lives was gone. I imagine some felt like they’d been conned; others, like everything they’d worked for had burned to the…

Standing on the dock of the Jaffa fishing harbor near where Jonah may have embarked on his ill-fated journey to Tarshish, I recently felt a strange connection to his story. Before this moment, I had never been able to emotionally identify with Jonah because I had never seen ...

The healthiest person to walk the face of this earth was a man in tune to His emotions. We think of Jesus as so many things, but we often fail to see Him as emotional. Jesus was so aware of how He felt. When I teach this concept, I refer…

As you work your way through the hundreds of mentions of the word heaven in the Bible, you soon realize there is a plurality of heavens. In fact, the Bible specifically speaks of three distinct heavens. When the apostle Paul wrote

The framers of the Constitution knew that the freedom they offered demanded responsible citizens. At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked an important question as he left Independence Hall on the final day of the meeting in Philadelphia. A woman asked Franklin...

If you've ever had the joy of having a ride-or-die friend, you know the more time we spend with someone, the more stuff we go through together, the more closely knit we become. The same is true of God. The more we hang out with him, the better...

When hope replaces pessimism, all aspects of our attitudes change, like the sun rising and flooding a landscape with color. One of those changes comes in the area of...