Forty-seven-year-old David Asprey, founder and CEO of Bulletproof coffee, wants to live to be 180. He’s invested a million dollars in extensive stem cell treatments and plans to spend several million more to become a centenarian. He’s confident that science will get him to his goal. Sometimes we Christians put our confidence in the wrong […]
Working with teens and preteens in a junior high school is fantastic. The students are funny, snarky, and bristling with love and laughter while at the same time struggling with insecurity, rebellion, confusion, anger, and a whole heap of attitude. Junior high is a melting pot of emotions and I love it. Recently I was […]
TiBlanc was one of the poorest kids in his Haitian village. The house his family lived in had no electricity, no running water, and no bathroom. Every night he put cotton in his ears to keep out the bugs. His mother, Carole, knew a school janitor who saved the students’ leftovers to feed to his […]
Scripture beautifully gives us analogies that reveal what God wants us to understand about life, relationships, and our walk with him. Recently I was intrigued as I studied what it means for Jesus to be the shepherd of our souls. In John 10, he used the example of a shepherd that cares for his sheep […]
Many years ago, a Bible college friend told me that he thought one true mark of spiritual maturity was the ability to do something for someone and never tell anyone. While this marker is not found in Scripture, it does fight against our common thinking and our human desire to gain something from the good […]
