I recently heard two conflicting pieces of marriage advice. The first one said that every time you talk to your spouse on the phone, you finish by saying “I love you.” The second piece of advice said that this was the stupidest thing he’d ever heard.  Not coincidentally, the giver of the first piece of…

Maybe it was a party you knew you shouldn’t have gone to. Perhaps it was a marriage everyone told you was doomed from the start but you were going to prove them wrong. Maybe it was a financial decision that led you into ruin. We all have regrets, we all have mistakes, we all have…

Years ago my wife and I took a vacation down to the Gulf Coast and did something we’d always wanted to do: parasailing. After being at the beach and enjoying the water for a few days, we ventured several hundred feet above the ocean to see if the view looked any different from up top,…

It’s easy to say that we have faith, but faith doesn’t become faith until you have you use it. In the opening chapters of Joshua, Joshua has to step into the legacy left behind by Moses. In those first critical moments of leadership, God instructs Joshua to two specific steps of faith. In Joshua 3-4,…

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