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Waking the Dead: Listening in Prayer and in Life

Stay Close to his Friends We get alongside those who walk with God. Put simply, that is what church is supposed to be about. Would that it were. I hope ...

Lent: Ask God What to Fast

It has been a few years — fourteen, now that I think about it — since we were in a church that celebrated Lent. We attended an Episcopal church in ...

The Eternal Romance

The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it ...

Prayer: Stay at Home

As Christians, we often feel the ungrounded restlessness of our ontological lightness even in our prayers. We find ourselves praying for God to “do” this, or for Him to help ...

God the Ageless Romancer

So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about — He is looking ...

Are You Wild At Heart?

Watch the Wild at Heart TrailerWhere does a man go to develop his full potential? Does he find it in college? Will his adventures lead him to greatness? Will the ...

Seeking Guidance from God

I’m trying to figure out whether or not we should go to Moab this year. And right now, it’s not really clear.For the past seven years a group of guys ...

National Day of Prayer: Don’t Give Up

Editor’s Note: Today is the National Day of Prayer and we would love for you to join other believers all over the United States in praying for our families, our ...

How God Initiates a Man

A man needs to know his name. He needs to know he’s got what it takes.And I don’t mean “know” in the modernistic, rationalistic sense. I don’t mean that the ...

What Makes You Come Alive?

Ask the Right QuestionSeveral years ago I was thumbing through the introduction of a book when I ran across a sentence that changed my life. God is intimately personal with ...

You Have a GOOD Father

Look at the birds of the air. Consider the lilies in the field. Are you not much more valuable to your true Father than they? — Matthew 6:26, 28 Are ...

Get Back to Your Heart and the Heart of God

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the Law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep His statutes and seek Him with all their heart. ...

Searching for a Story Worth Living

Everyone is looking for a story worth living.Have you noticed? From yoga to coffee to politics to an epic ski trip, everyone is hungry for a story to be part ...

Moving Mountains: There Is a Way Things Work

We just want [prayer] to be simple and easy… The problem is, sometimes [God] comes through, often He doesn’t, and we have no idea for the rhyme or reason why. ...

Remember the Dragon: Christmas Is an Invasion

The news reports this fall on the execution of Syrian children by ISIS guerrillas left us all speechless. Now reports are coming out this week that ISIS terrorists have issued ...

Love and War in Marriage

Marriage is hard. But, it is also meant to be beautiful. Building and maintaining a successful marriage requires more work, grace, patience, forgiveness, and sacrifice than any bride or groom ...

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