How to Celebrate Easter in the Hospital
As I began to think about Holy Week, I remembered these words I wrote nine years ago from a hospital bed on Easter morning. I hope it encourages you. Momentary affliction is our current reality, but resurrection is our eternal promise. And resurrection dawns in...
Do What Makes You Happy is Horrible Advice
If there is a mantra of the modern world, it’s “be true to yourself.” It’s the spoken and unspoken worldview that drives so much of our culture today. It can even infect how we follow Jesus, embracing faith as a self-help strategy to...
Missions: I Do Not Think it Means What You Think it Means
In the 1987 cult classic The Princess Bride, Vizzini, the Sicilian mastermind, is constantly outmatched by heroic Wesley. Every time his new scheme is thwarted, he looks at his hired henchman and declares with a lisp, “inconceivable!” This happens again and...