Posts in category For the Heart

Grace isn’t content merely to be a comforter, it wants to be a potentate.

Last week I saw the face of my third child as she came into the world. As with our two sons, we decided to wait …

When the wedding ceremony is over there are some things that true love doesn’t wait for.

If Paul had planted perfect churches, we might have the mistaken notion that the power for healthy churches died with the apostles, and that the best we can do now is to try to get back to the model of those early churches. In reality, however, the “power” for healthy churches and healthy Christians is just as alive today as He was in the first century. As Paul himself put it: “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.”

Doubt is debilitating. One author recounts the struggles of a girl named Laura who felt that she couldn’t believe: “I don’t know’. I can’t do …

In a previous post, I suggested that our natural tendency is to put other people somewhere along an imaginary line, stretched between the two poles …

The people whose examples stir me most are dead now—at least their bodies don’t live on the earth anymore. But I can still take walks with them by reading their biographies. Here are snippets from the writings of several men whose examples never fail to stir me, correct me, and excite my hunger for God.

If a recently married man told me, “Give me a few good reasons why I should move in with my wife,” I supposed I would …

Eight months ago, I went from having slightly concerning pains to needing emergency surgery. Eight months ago, I found out I would not meet our …

A big God makes sin a cross-sized problem. But no problem is too big for God’s all-abounding, all-cleansing, magnificent grace. I hope this week you’ll see past the cruel Romans, beyond the petty Pharisees, and through the fearful disciples to eternity’s finest display of love and grace: “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”