Today marks the beginning of the Passion Week, Easter Week, the week where Christians around the world commemorate the final teachings and sufferings of Jesus, culminating in the greatest event in the history of the world – the resurrection of the Christ. And while I certainly do not intend to Read more…
Yesterday, as I was driving home from my office, an electronic sign caught my eye. A daycare center on my daily commute route has one of those electronic billboard signs that changes to flash up multiple messages. It’s the kind of thing that grabs your attention the first few times Read more…
How do you approach life? When making decisions, do you feel hopeful about possibilities? Or do you feel nervous about what might go wrong? While most of us do not face all of life in one mode or the other, we do face each little turning point along the way Read more…
Today I will be speaking to a gathering of parents at a youth rally in Livingston, LA. I am so grateful for the opportunity to encourage, challenge, and equip these parents! Working with teens and their parents has become one of my great passions in life, and every opportunity is Read more…
I hope you have found this “twisted” series valuable. Feel free to share your thoughts with me and our other followers here at the site. This is the last letter in the series, “Making the Most of Family Life,” as I originally presented them in a church class back in Read more…
Letter five in my six-part series, “Making the Most of Family Life”: – My dear young tempters, Today’s strategy is not so much about learning a direct attack as it Read more…
And my fourth installment in the “Making the Most of Family Life” series, inspired by “The Screwtape Letters”: – My dear young tempters, As I hope you will recall from our previous lessons, one of the Read more…
I just have to tell you about what a great gift-giver God is: I met a fellow Christian counselor at IHOP this morning for a delightful breakfast of harvest grain ‘n nut pancakes with blueberries on top. Good stuff. It was the first time I had met him, and our Read more…
Letter number three from my series, “Making the Most of Family Life”: My dear young tempters, Pop quiz – Which modern mass temptation strategy combines elements of Isolation, Selfishness, Laziness, and Proper Worship (which the Enemy insists Read more…
Letter number two from my series, “Making the Most of Family Life.”: My dear young tempters, Some of you have reported back to me your eager desire to attack and destroy families in the name of Our Father Below. An admirable hunger, but a misguided view. To destroy a family Read more…