Men, let’s be honest: Sometimes reading the Bible can feel like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. You sit down with your coffee and good intentions, crack open…

The drive from the game to the pizza shop was quiet. Liam, my 13-year-old son, and his rep basketball team had just won their second game in a row, but…

We’re constantly being shaped by what we are connected to. When I’m under stress or pressure, I have a connection with salty snacks that literally shapes me…physically. (I’m working on…

We all have a picture of the “ideal” church. You know—the one where the preaching hits home every week, the worship moves our hearts, the people feel like family, the…

I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, but even I know the scene from The Empire Strikes Back when a grown-up Luke Skywalker battles Darth Vader with 1980s special effect…

“Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a…