Why are we able to ask an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing God for help? Why can we ask for a better life and future with him? There's really only one reason. The reason is...

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Every Tuesday, I get the joy of spending two hours at the local jail with women who want to learn about Jesus, helping them figure out how to do life again once they are released. It's a seven-week program. We talk with them about ...

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Heaven sounds like a place of imaginative fictional fantasy. But maybe the reason we possess within us such imaginative fictional capacity is because of a longing for eternity that God placed in the human heart...

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In our present culture, we want our paths to look like an exclamation mark. We want it to be straightforward and then we want everything to have a point...

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A radio host interviewing me about my latest book, The Age of Promise, recently asked for my “life verse,” which I guess is sort of a favorite verse that summarizes one’s purpose or theology...

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I know what it is like to live in poverty. I know what it is like to have nothing. But I was not taught to hate everybody out there who had anything. My mother had enough wisdom...

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When I was in the Broadway revival of Grease, I was often called upon to perform the leading roles of Marty, Patty Simcox, and Ms. Lynch with little to no warning. In fact, I performed these roles ...

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In Matthew 14:22-33, Jesus sent his disciples out onto the Sea of Galilee while he stayed behind because he'd had a long day. A big crowd had been following him, and now he just wanted to be alone with his Father...

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One way Christians have wavered from their convictions is that they settle for a shallow faith. Some of us take the first step and make the faith our own, but then we make a mistake: we learn one or two things and stop there. We dabble in the truth ...

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The holidays are over, a new year has begun, and the usual routine has returned for most people. Through all the hustle and bustle of the busy season, perhaps there’s one important question...

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