Collab-oration: why it can take two to speak for God

WHEN I’M TALKING with a prospective author about possibly collaborating on a writing project, I will often use the analogy of a music producer to explain…

Pause before prayer

I ONCE HEARD praying for other people likened to plunging into deep water from a high cliff: you have to wait to bottom out before you…

God’s bread crumbs

IT DOESN’T TAKE a genius like he was to realize that Albert Einstein was being overly modest when he said, “I have no special talents. I…

The goal or the glory

GIVEN THAT MY typical work-from-my-Florida-home garb is shorts and a tee-shirt, it’s not too much of a stretch to consider wearing a soccer kit to my…

Quarantine for questions

MOST OF US face discouragement or doubts at some stage in our Christian walk, but it’s not just a personal issue. How we handle these situations…

Shades of gray

SOME PREACHERS are like movie poster copywriters—they take part of what someone said and with the judicious use of a few omissions and some ellipses make…

The mess and the masterpiece

IF SOAP OPERA scriptwriters ever run out of plot lines, they just need to turn to the Old Testament. There’s enough dysfunction and craziness in there…

Introducing The NCV Bible

COMING SOON TO a Bible shelf near you: The NCV (New Cancel Version). This translation eliminates characters with a compromised past. As you may imagine, such…

Lot’s little eyes

THE PROBLEM WITH slippery slopes is that they usually come with a nice view, which is why so many people tend to ignore the “keep back”…

Long before we were aware

ONE OF THE neat things about helping people tell their life stories is how you get to see God’s hand in their past, including times when…