If you've ever lifted weights, you know that every few weeks you find what's called your "max." To find your max, you warm up and then...

Last night I dreamed I was asked to give my testimony in front of a large number of struggling believers. Twenty minutes before the event...

Mental health appears to be a hot cultural topic these days, but sometimes emotional health isn’t given quite the credence it deserves....

You fall off your bike. You cry. You bleed. Your parent hears you, patches you up, and sends you back out into the world. But the next...

When we don’t look like the images we’re shown when we’ve never heard a story that sounds like our own the condemnation is heavy and the...

A bright golden sparkler stands out amidst a dark night background, symbolizing joy in the Year of Jubilee.

I love helping people in my office. Usually the biggest thing I do for them is listen well. Yes, that's something their friends could do,...

Doing EMDR work regularly now, I am realizing how many people prevent themselves from healing simply by refusing to recognize that their...

In gardening "volunteer" is a term we use to describe plants that come up on their own. These are plants you likely would have planted,...

I have enough friends who live with chronic pain to know better than to say that all pain is good. But what I am seeing lately is that...

I attended an EMDR training over the last month and have been blown away by the effectiveness of the trauma-focused psychotherapy I've...

Can we be graceful with our immaturity? All of us... in different ways. If we could wrap our heads around the fact that being a human...

As a privileged follower of Jesus, walking through life is not just about surviving, it's also about advocating. That means when I wake...

This weekend Cass and his band recorded for a new album coming up and I had the honored privilege of hanging out in the tech room at...

Our current society is structured to validate. Whatever you believe, whatever you think, however you feel… society has organized in such...

Experiencing evangelism has brought me to wonder if anyone is doing it well. While I've met many that do it poorly, I've met a covert few...

If by thinking through all my questions you've decided that sharing your faith is important, how do you know where God is calling you to...

Maybe it seems silly to be asking these questions NOW, after I've come home from a mission trip to El Salvador, but before I went I...

When thinking about the short term mission trip I participated in last year, I have a lot of questions. I've already asked if sharing our...

After going on a short-term out-of-country mission trip last year, I have a lot of questions about the process of missions. Previously...