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Simple Surrender

When I was 12 years old, the Allman Brothers Band released their Live at Fillmore East album. Young musicians heard a fresh challenge and a raw energy in those records—a 2-record, 4-sided LP set with 7 total songs. It was different, unique. It was clearly a new style of rock but the level of improvisation […]

A Foundation in the Fury

This past Saturday, I taught my Knight’s Code Men’s Conference in Rock Hill, SC as a part of my 2017 partnership with the South Carolina Methodist Men. I want to share a quick story from that event. A friend of mine left at 5:30 a.m. and drove about 3 hours to bring his 19-year-old son […]

On This Side of Suffering

This past Sunday night I read the book of Job again. Here are 10 statements on suffering I gleaned from that reading, with wisdom and inspiration from Eugene Peterson’s commentary. Suffering can come just as much on the committed saint as from the consequences of the sinner. Suffering reminds us that we grow closer to […]

The Moments That Make Maturity

In Genesis 22, the legendary account says that God told Abraham to go up on the mountain and place Isaac on the altar to sacrifice his son to Him. As Abraham is raising the knife, God tells him to stop and that there is instead a ram in the bushes to use for the sacrifice. […]

Completely Jesus

Whatever age our kids are, we desperately want to protect them. When they are little and we look over on the playground and see them falling and get there a split-second too late to keep them from hitting their head or we find out when they are adults, they have walked through something you had […]

The Ultimate Driving Experience

A generous benefactor gave two men identical super-expensive luxury sports cars. They each looked around their new cars inside and out and quickly saw they were fully loaded with more bells and whistles than they could ever have imagined. Safety features, amenities, gadgets, and major cool stuff. But these cars were not at all like […]

Spring Cleaning for the Soul

This time of year, we often see people outside cleaning their windows, screens, and flower beds, powerwashing everything in sight, but also doing what back in the day they called spring cleaning of their houses….. moving furniture, dusting, and getting all the cobwebs out of all the nooks and crannies that had gathered there over the winter. In our […]

That Sinking Feeling

Growing up as a kid, I loved watching “jungle movies” on Saturday afternoons on TV. There was always one scene you could count on in this genre as the group of explorers or treasure hunters, good guys or bad guys, made their way through the dense jungle: Someone was going to fall into “quicksand.” Quicksand […]

Our Mess vs. His Mind

I have a close friend who shared with me that when he was younger and had given his life to Christ, he was still struggling with several sins, one of them regarding his purity. He said as he read Paul’s letters, he began to understand that the Word of God was God’s “raw material” to […]

The Christian Narcissist

In Romans 12, Paul calls all believers to be a “living sacrifice.” Over the years, I have written a great deal on this passage because it is so rich and has so much to say to us but here’s a new challenge. If our lives are to be lived on the altar of Christ, continually […]