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When I say, "best life" I don't mean the version where everything works out and...

I thought I had a plan. Not a vague idea. A real plan. Timelines. Decisions....

What happens to a believer who keeps messing up or a leader who fails? That...

Some teachings in the church have caused more subtle damage than anyone wants to admit....

There’s a lot of buzz on social media right now about adult children cutting off,...

I’ve sat across from more men than I can count, their eyes down, voice shaking,...

You can sit in a room and never open your mouth, yet still deliver a...

I can’t stop thinking about the single mom standing in the checkout line, swiping her...

Before you dive into this short story, let me invite you to slow down and...

I was exploring a local thrift store the other day, the kind of place that...

I don’t like church anymore. There, I said it. I don’t like complicated, wordy worship...

I had a dream the other night. And before you read too much into this,...

Some of us aren’t burned out from doing too much. We’re burned out from feeling...

There is no easy or gentle way to say it: I set my house on...

You’re standing in the kitchen, cutting crusts off a PB&J while your spouse silently scrolls...

Finding Hope in the Ruins: God’s Love in Brokenness The other night, I was driving...

There’s nothing quite like a divorce to make you feel like you’ve just been handed...

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...