When I was a kid, I could have a pretty serious outlook on life sometimes. I was introspective, doing a lot of carefully thinking and caring deeply about everything that seemed important to me. And those qualities aren’t bad but, like any good thing, they can get out of balance. I remember one time my [...]

“And they shall know you by your disapproval.”

Or is it that Christians are supposed to be known by their love? And sure, we’re supposed to be continually changed to be more and more like Christ. But let’s not confuse roles here. I’m not so sure we’re supposed to be forming everyone else in the [...]

When some people say that God is all they really need, what do they mean by that?

We clearly have other physical needs, and God has created us to need attention and affection and interaction with other people – needs that go beyond our physical needs.

So is this just a [...]

I was talking to a long-time friend earlier this week who mentioned how they hate it when there are “gray areas” in relationships, elements of the friendship left undefined – so you don’t know what your standing is.

Years ago, I couldn’t relate to that feeling as much as I now can, though I always [...]

I recently ran across an interesting saying at the end of a music video that a friend had posted to Facebook (Jeremy Fisher – “Scar That Never Heals”). It was the Zimbabwean proverb “a coward has no scars.”

I’ve often wondered if some of the things we would like to think of as wisdom may [...]