A dying plea from Horatius Bonar in 1889 was, "Please don't write a biography of me." He knew that people would be interested in his life but he always wanted to point men to Christ,

I love listening to my children tell me about their futures. They have all kinds of dreams about all kinds of things. They each know, for example, what they’re going to be when they grow

I gave one of my daughters the task of folding towels today. It’s an easy task. It’s an almost daily task when you live in a home with 8 people. It’s a helpful task. You

Some Christians prefer to struggle. The thought was first suggested to me as I listened to Brian Koppelman’s “The Moment” podcast a few years ago. During his 7/7/15 conversation with author Seth Godin, Koppelman relates

In the preface to C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, he describes “the mark of hell” as “the ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration on the self.” Hell is the end of the road for the sin of

Contemporary pop psychology’s mantra about well-being is that you must love yourself first to be a healthy person and to be able to love others. It is common for some form of this thinking to

An excerpt from In the Arena: The Promise of Sports for Christian Discipleship On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, a 28-year-old rookie, courageously ran onto Ebbets Field transforming one of the most sacred spaces in American

As a high school baseball coach, I taught my players what my college baseball coach has taught me, nerves are not an enemy to excellent performance, they are a necessary, and can become a friend.

   “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children […] Teach them to you children, talking about them when you sit

In John 14:12, Jesus makes the startling statement: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because