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I never imagined I would walk through the valley of divorce. My grandfather and grandmother...

Let’s have a little heart-to-heart, shall we? Some of you have given up on God,...

A Pastor’s Journey Through Burnout, Failure, and Redemption Failure—real, soul-crushing, “what-have-I-done” failure—is rarely sudden. It’s...

True friendship is a gift we sometimes take for granted. A devoted friend is a...

They don’t tell you this when you’re signing divorce papers, but you’re not just parting...

The story of Leah and Rachel, known to some as the “original sister wives,” is...

Have you noticed that the traits or behaviors we see, dislike, and criticize in others...

Family. One simple word, and a common word at that, but one “f” word that...

Infidelity, a nicer word for adultery perhaps, is far more common than most want to...

Have you ever wondered if you would survive during a time of trying to navigate...

Everything changes—every relationship, human system and structure, organization, organism, and cell in our body. Even...

We live in a world where rejection and revulsion are far too common. The cancel...

Life is hard sometimes. I don’t mean splinter-in-your-finger hard. I mean, you’re in so much...

We are all wounded. All. Of. Us. I’m not bringing this up to minimize my poor...

From the outside, my marriage looked fine. We didn’t fight or scream, curse at, or...

Most of us have a plethora of lies etched into our souls. As a result...

Is it possible that God wants to use our pain, even our self-inflicted agony and...

People who constantly stress about what-ifs are problematic because they typically go to a place of worry...

More teenagers die from suicide than from cancer, birth defects, heart disease, pneumonia, and influenza—combined....

Our way of life is far from perfect on this side of eternity. The unmasked...

Relationships make life worth living despite stress or a less-than-fun situation. The importance of relationships...

The desire to be liked and approved by others runs deep in most of us—maybe...

Many things in the Bible are not as black and white as we would like....

Sometimes, failure stares me in the face and seems to mock my very existence. In...

Divorce is costly. Though not an unpardonable sin, when we fail at marriage, we will...

Christians, like all humans, are far from perfect and subject to the same idiocy as...

No one is truly normal. Everyone has quirks. Everybody has something somewhere in their past...

Defining moments in life can happen fast and unexpectedly or result from something planned. Perhaps...

We, collectively as a nation, are getting older—much older. About one in four people fall...

A lot of Christians reacted in anger when I posted on my social media accounts...