Life can be discouraging at times. A wise man once told me this during a particularly discouraging time in my life: “Son, don’t quit when life is tough. You don’t…
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I can really see that. The other day my daughter had the same reaction and facial expression I have when…
"Don't judge me!" That's the cry of modern man in a modern society that has come to see every desire as a right and every pleasure as a perfectly normal expectation.…
Paul Tillich once said, “Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.” Interesting!
Too many times, moments of doubt are used by the enemy of your soul to…
Everybody seems to have the same dream at one time or another. For me, it was a dream where I had a big presentation in front of a large crowd,…
Approaching Great Lent, the Church gives us the wisdom of the Story of the Prodigal Son. We are challenged to escape the spiritual slavery of either ignoring the brokenness of…
"By the time we got to Woodstock..." Sorry, in advance for putting that song in your head for the rest of the day. But there is one quote more from…
It’s a paradox. A paradox is a concept that we humans, especially we humans shaped and formed by post-Enlightenment secularism, have a hard time grasping. Paradox makes us uncomfortable. It feels like…
“I wish I were older!” Those were my words to my mother when I was a teenager and longed for the “freedom” of being an adult! If I only knew…