Healing Hereafter

So back in the day when I was a kid (some would argue I still am one), I was occasionally allowed to stay up late enough to watch a parent-approved TV movie, like The Wizard of Oz. My folks apparently thought it was healthy for children to have an unreasonable fear of monkeys. But one movie that...

Ahhh, it's another good day for gratitude. What I'm thankful for today is encouragement, but of a very specific kind. Not the pep rally "you can do it" kind, nor the "I'm there for you" support kind. Those are great, but the encouragement I appreciate the very most—and the kind I consider to be...

Today's post is short, sweet, and just for fun! Whether for our own children or for somebody else's, we've all run across a particularly interesting name and thought, "That is freaking awesome!" while simultaneously envisioning the "Are you serious?" look we'd get from a spouse or parent of the...

Who do you owe some thanks to and why? This post is dedicated to Jim, my dad. Yes, these first few "gratitude-type" posts have been centered around my family, but seriously, leaving them for later just couldn't be justified. I do owe them. I learned some very important values from my dad that have...

No no, this isn’t some heretical claim that people who can only take so much harp-strumming will be trying to flee heaven.  But it is one of the most important questions one can ask about whether or not heaven can truly be all it’s strung up to be!  God promises his people an eternal dwelling void...

Today's Thanksgiving once again! I gotta say, these giving gratitude posts are really fun to write, and they put my mind in a happy, healthy place. Especially today's. To Levi my 3 year-old, this one's for you. I could thank you for teaching me obscene amounts of truck trivia or all the different...

So I work with students quite a bit and essentially have since I was one myself. Quite simply, they're awesome, and it's exciting to see people with such a unique combination of passion, inexperience, idealism, silliness, and skill have so much fun while bearing so much fruit! Today's students...

Like many other religious claims, the assumption that God has been, is, and always will be perfect is one of those givens that is often unfortunately just taught and then taken for granted. Christians assert he's unchangingly flawless and base their whole purpose, life, and eternity around...

It's another good day to share with someone special in our lives that we are thankful for them and to help them know precisely why.  This post is dedicated to my wife Laura.  I mean you kinda had to see this coming, right?  The next 100 posts could be dedicated to her as well, but the one thing...

We're taking it to the tabloids again to attempt to find healing from hurt! This week one of the hurts is quite literal: a nose piercing. And the punctured pop star? Well, it's Lady Gaga as you can read here. No surprise I know, and although I certainly hope her hurt heals soon, it's a different...