Our mission agency, Christ For the City Int’l, spent a day serving during our bi-annual board meetings. During lunch, I sat down next to a man eating alone. I asked, “How’s your day going?”
After an awkward pause, he opened up. I sensed a melancholy spir
Noah Webster wrote, ‘The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” Proverbs 10 shows how wisdom and character bless a person’s life while foolishness ruins them.Righteousness and WisdomRighteousness and wisdom bring joy to your father,…
People search many places for life. It’s found in one place only, in Christ. Watchman Nee’s quote captures the truth well: “Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I…
Change is often fearful and messy, but can be the time of your greatest blessings. Getting depledged from a fraternity in college allowed me to discover Jesus Christ personally after meeting a new friend in a dorm. Taking a journalism class 16 years after I graduated from college was the first step in writing a…
Being a father is my toughest and most important job. Most of our social problems can be traced to absent and unloving fathers. According to research, involved and loving fathers have children with higher academic and economic achievement, better psychological well-being, more overall life satisfaction, higher self-acceptance and social competence, more tolerant and understanding and…
When people aren’t affirmed or cast aside by a father or the body of Christ, they are scarred and hindered from being His instruments in spreading the kingdom of God. Depression and feelings of inadequacy demoralize and make them impotent. In contrast, God the Father’s affirmation of Jesus Christ as His beloved Son in whom…
If you are like me, I exhaust every ounce of strength before I call upon God for help. When I misplace my keys, I go around the house like a chicken with its head cut off before it dawns on me, “Have you prayed about it?” If I’m going through a frustrating circumstance, my default…
None of us choose our family. Our family of origin makes a huge difference concerning which opportunities we encounter in life. In my family, I learned the value of hard work and what it takes to succeed. It was a foregone conclusion I would go to college. This step opened up additional possibilities for me…