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Leadership is, by default, a "team sport."  If you have no one to lead, how can you be a leader?  But having a group to lead doe...

As a pastor, I've had many unfortunate encounters with domestic violence and its consequences.  I've sat in my office across the t...

" I've never met Islam.  I think Islam owes me $5.  But apparently Islam hates America, which is fascinating."  -Wajahat Ali...

Next Friday, The Shack  opens nationwide, prompting full theaters, plenty of box office profits, and apparently, a bunch of ticked off con...

"And the King will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me....

A civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.  -Martin Luther King. ...

I walked out of a restaurant a few days ago sure of one thing:  the young lady who showed me to my seat and bid me farewell when I left wa...

Next week, I'll make my first visit of 2017 to my local gym.  I dread that visit. I don't dread it for the reasons you might thi...

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teac...

Our church family is currently in the midst of a series called "Hearing God Through the Holidays."  For those of you who joined ...

Yesterday, our church family observed "Orphan Sunday" two weeks late.  We didn't wait because the issue was unimportant.  We...