When we pray for loved ones or for ourselves for healing or for direction, we hope that God hears us and will answer our prayers. When answers don’t come, it is natural for us to wonder, “Did the answers not come because I didn’t have enough faith?”  Unanswered prayer – prayers that have been p...

There was a time when I thought that our culture was moving away from the value of being in community.  Families are cocooning – hiding away in their man caves and women caves and no one cares about community anymore.  My observations are not quite accurate.  Community is still import...

I was fascinated by looking at the comments on the youtube video by Jefferson Bethke http://youtu.be/1lAhDGYlpqY. It was a bold statement about the problem with religion.  He shared his thoughts on the difference between the way of religion and the ...

I am far from the first person to point out the popular notion from Twitter about following people, events, and trends in our culture and the common language with those who consider themselves followers of Jesus.  As analogies go, there are some interesting similarities.  You can follow or...