I tried to flip a house once. It was a typical "Anthony impulse move," but I figured if Chip and Joanna Gaines could do it, so could I. All by myself...

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Pop psychology is wrong when it tells you to look inside yourself and find your value. The magazines are wrong when they suggest you are only as good as you are thin, muscular, pimple-free, or perfumed. The movies mislead you...

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I don't understand God. I'm not sure that I want to. I think it's awe-inspiring that the wonder of His love for us makes no sense...

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I woke up and reached over to the bedside table for my phone to see what time it was. It was just three o’clock in the morning. I groaned. I slipped out of bed...

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Young people today spend way too much time trying to force their way into opportunities. In fact, nobody is really immune to this. Whether we're fresh out of college or twenty years into a profession...

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This week we celebrate the anniversary of our nation’s birth of freedom. This historical moment occurred as a result of wise, committed leaders and followers pledging their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to establish the greatest foundation upon which a nation and its people could build...

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One of the cornerstone truths of the current LIFE Today series “Healing for Your Body, His Temple” centers on God’s established principle of rest. The account of creation in Genesis says, “By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested...

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One year ago today, I began the journey to find my biological father. For years, I thought he had passed away. But on Father’s Day last year, my children bought me a DNA test and the results pointed to another man – and he was still alive. It’s a curious thing, knowing you have “another father” out there...

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Do you tend to believe that what you do defines who you are? When you fail to accomplish a goal, do you tend to feel that you are a failure? When you do something bad, does it make you feel...

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I stood in the door frame of the kitchen and faced my parents, who were drinking coffee and sitting in the two overstuffed armchairs in front of the bay window. A fire burned in the big stone fireplace. Through the window I could see the valley...

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