Pastors

What happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity.

When you work with children, interruptions are inevitable.

Last night, I awakened several times to rain pounding on the roof. Early this morning, unable to sleep, I went to the basement to check on things.

What weighs you down, bends you over, keeps you small? Is it the weight of other people's expectations? Or the burden of trying to make other people happy?

Making time to care for your soul.

A furious line of thunderstorms pounded our area this week. Windows left open meant the carpet was as soaked as the lawn.

Parenting, it's been said, is the only profession where the goal is to work yourself out of a job.

One of my favorite spiritual practices is one you don't hear much about: the practice of play.

If silence is "weird," why do we want to engage in it at all, much less make time for it as a spiritual practice?

Little Josh wanders the three-year-old room at Promiseland, stopping first at the art station to color a picture of Jesus, which he embellishes with a few lines and circles meant to be Thomas the train.