Miscellaneous

By the time I got to Chicago, I almost had to literally pry my fingers off the car’s steering wheel. I had gripped the wheel so tightly, […]

Good writing is routinely annoying. It is! The best writing gets into our thoughts and stirs our emotions because, at some point, it will challenge our thinking […]

Newman Howard Smith used to tell of a remark made by Winston Churchill the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. After the fall of France to the […]

If you have liked some of the WaterBrook Multnomah titles I have recommended — or appreciated being steered away from a few! — then you’ll have to […]

Summer tried to hang on, but it’s gone already, being replaced by some rainy days of fall. What pairs better with a rainy day than a good […]

Before I traveled to Italy several years ago, I took the trip virtually. I was living in Hawaii at the time, and getting to Italy from an […]

Many times in scripture we are exhorted to be courageous. But what is real courage? We tend to think of being courageous as those times when we […]

In the fifth century, a man named Arenius made the decision to live a holy life. So he abandoned the comforts of Egyptian society to follow an […]

It’s circled in red on your calendar, that dreaded next visit to the dentist. As the days near, you begin to brush your teeth more regularly. You […]

Are you so busy you feel like you don’t have any time to think? A lot of people feel that way. You likely feel that way because […]