It's time to surrender your striving.…
With every crisis comes an opportunity to shed our self-delusions.…
A relocation, a new chapter, and a non-binding New Year's resolution.…
The beauty of God’s eternal plan remains untouched by my worldly cares.…
The longest day of the year can’t hold a candle to a light that will last forever.…
I was in the mountains. But not the mountains you might be expecting.…
Yes. Easter Sunday is coming. But does that mean there's no more need to mourn?…
What is truth? We love to hold others to account, but can we speak truth to our own power?…
Without spiritual self-examination, we'll never really transform into Christ’s image and find freedom in him.…
There’s a gift in each season. But most, like me, tend to appreciate winter's gift least of all.…
Within our love of sentimentality lies a more authentic instinct—that one day, the story will end as it should.…
Outside the Last Homely House, I was in heaven. Inside? That's another story.…
God recently granted me a higher place to dwell.…
Don't feel like a leader? You are one. Every time you practice kindness.…
I worship God by the very act of walking.…
Less is more. Probably more than you've ever imagined.…
We so often look for God's will on where we should go with our lives. But what about the times we need to stop? (Sermon Video)…
Most of us can't recognize the truth when we remain behind the bars of our own making.…
Details about John's new book recently released from Zondervan Publishing.…
In marriage, and with God himself, there is a mystery to belonging. I found it between Keith and the nuns.…
Trade your ordinary, predictable world for a life of scenic beauty and imagination.…
Our relationship to work has everything to do with how we work on our relationships.…
It is one of the gifts of life to me that , no matter our age, we're never far from the glory and imagery of childhood.…
When social media has become as chaotic as the Wild, Wild West, practicing the Golden Rule is more important now than ever.…
Christmas is a time of joy, but also a time to come to God as we are, especially in all our melancholy hopelessness.…
No need to tell you where I was, but it was wonderful. For me, there was no other place like it on earth.…
Today I'm in mourning. Because sometime last night, I lost one of the best friends I've ever had.…
This is one of the most effective lessons on communication I've ever heard.…
God once said, "It is not good that man should be alone." And, still today, we all feel this in our deepest heart.…
The two qualities that typically make for the best movies also make for the most heroic life. Are you ready to play your part?…
A beautiful woman died the other day. And, for my own life, I have no reason at all to complain.…
There’s a deeper dream than the American Dream, a truer happiness that’s worth pursuing.…
How Alzheimer’s other victims have loved, persevered and come to terms with one of life’s most dehumanizing diseases.…
Sometimes when you lose....you win.…
In art, nature, and worship it's possible to encounter something so beautiful and yet so beyond you that you are left in complete astonishment and awe.…
True freedom is found when our choices move beyond our right to our own independence, to a life bound by the mandates of true relationship.…
Man takes vengeance for the world's injustice. God took vengeance on the only man who deserved none, rendering vengeance’s demise.…
