“What’s 187 times 187?” my 10-year-old quizzed his 5-year-old brother. Exasperated, Tate shouted to his older brother, “I don’t know; I’m only in Pre-K!” Tate doesn’t know how to multiply just yet.Read More…

We spend most of our time pursuing security and satisfaction, but the world’s versions of these things will disappoint us every time. The only time-tested way to get our basic soul needsRead More…

I have a terrible memory! I can’t remember names of people I’ve met a few times. I almost never remember to send in permission slips for the boys’ field trips. And withoutRead More…

Life really isn’t always a bed of roses. When I was in middle school, my family was falling apart, so I went to live with my aunt for almost a year. IRead More…

Do you remember the names Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from your childhood Storybook Bible? They were the three Hebrew young men thrown into the fiery furnace for refusing to bow down toRead More…

One of the best tips on friendship I’ve ever heard was from one of my daughters. My daughter, who was in middle school at the time, got in the car one dayRead More…

“Here’s the church; here’s the steeple. Open the doors and there’s the people.” Did you say that poem as a kid, folding your hands and fingers into a building and steeple filledRead More…

When we experience those things in life that we just don’t understand, we have to choose whether or not we’re going to trust God. It’s not being optimistically foolish to trust GodRead More…