Bob Goff is inviting people over to his house. “Stages are great,” he says, “but we don’t need them. We’ll have a different conversation at my house than we would in a convention center.” He’s inviting 50 people for a day and a half. The agenda is pretty simple: “We’ll talk about who we are, but more […]

A good long-time friend wrote me after reading Paul’s post last week and asked, “Do you really think he has a purpose for allowing what we’re going through, even the incredibly hard things?” Because I know what he’s walking through, it’s a very powerful question. Here’s part of my answer: +++ Let me answer with […]

I answer questions in a variety of other settings. I decided to bring a couple of my answers here. +++ A friend emailed me to ask how to learn Bible stories never heard as a child. What if you are a parent and you want to know Bible stories but just don’t have time to […]

First published November 11, 2011. It’s simple to become a veteran. You either enlist or are drafted into the military. You survive. You get out of the military. You are automatically a vet. No application process. I’m not saying that it is easy, mind you, only that it is simple. In between the entering and […]

I’m very familiar with the first phrase of a song. You may be, too. “For the beauty of the earth,” is how it starts. It’s a hymn written in England and published in 1864. It’s interesting. While the War between the States was raging here, F.S. Pierpoint wrote in the third stanza, For the joy […]