Good News and Bad News, Bad News First If you were to write a letter to the high-profile men who have recently wronged women in our culture, and you knew that your words would be…

Movie lovers will no longer watch certain movies or television shows in the same way they were once accustomed to, or they will not watch them at all. Why? Because the actor…

There are reasons why we are dealing with so much inappropriate sexual behavior in our culture. Why do we, as a people, prey upon one another more than we pray for…

Icons of comedy and some kings of creativity have been revealed as anything but funny and original. Women have been violated, families devastated, careers abruptly obliterated, and men we once looked up …

We now own and care for a rooster. I never really saw that in my future but it’s certainly for real. Our roosters name is Bob and he is getting huge …

A few days ago, I approached the Western Wall in Jerusalem with the idea that I would pray for a few moments. I had no prayer focus until I asked for…

What is the oldest thing you own? I own some baseball cards from as far back as the early sixties. There are some items in our home that go back to the…

While walking through the Jerusalem hotel lobby this week, I noticed a young, orthodox Jewish man having an arranged date with a young, orthodox Jewish woman. They were each dressed in …

We watched the broadcast of the College Football National Championship in Hebrew. That’s right, Kirk Herbstreit’s voice was covered over with Hebrew color commentary. It seemed, to many, that the Alabama-Georgia game…

My wife and I flew into JFK in New York on the first morning of our trek to Israel thinking that everything was ok. Why wouldn’t we think everything was ok? Everything…

Last night, after weeks of waiting, my wife, Angie, and I sat in front of our oversized television to enjoy, yell, pace, and endure the excruciating pain of cheering our Georgia Bulldogs to victory. Actually…

While typing an outline the other day, I realized that I had misspelled a word. I meant to type “strategy” but it actually read “startegy”. Not a bad word, actually. To me…

Surely, you have seen American Idol auditions of people who are terrible singers? The seasoned judges try to let them know it’s time to take up another career path. Forty-two million viewers immediately know the…

Do you want your son or daughter thriving in a church family when they are in their late 20’s or would you rather spend hours in prayer that they would return to the church? Do…

This world has a deep, seemingly never-ending “soul ache”. It is difficult to meet someone who is not hurting somewhere down deep in the “crawl spaces of their soul” whether than realize it or not…

Is your “A” game, really your “A” game or is it really your “B” game? Has your status quo been your status quo for far too long? There is a greater efficiency and effectiveness that…

Imagine for a moment that you return home from a fantasy job one day and like many other days, you are asked a very typical, benign question. “How did your day go?”. Rather than say…