AMERICA: ONE NATION UNDER GOD! Today in America we celebrate our 241st birthday. Americans are united, not by geography, not by race, not by national heritage, but by an idea:...

REFINE YOUR SELF IMAGE TO HELP REFINE YOUR BEHAVIOR We will never outperform our self-image. Said another way, we will always act consistently with how we see ourselves. Much self-destructive...

THREE TRANSFORMING TRUTHS TO ACCELERATE SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION One of the challenges I have had in the Christian life is not being able to see the forest for the trees. There...

I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE BRAVE NEW DISCIPLESHIP SYSTEM IS GOING ONLINE! We have had many requests for a digital version of this powerful spiritual growth tool, and...

IDENTIFYING AND REJECTING THREE SEDUCTIVE CULTURAL VALUES There are three cultural values that are extremely seductive. They appeal to our sense of autonomy and self-sufficiency. They give us the illusion...

Last week, I summarized a speech by Josh McDowell in which he described a “perfect storm” of cultural change. In it he said that three cultural changes had combined to...

THREE MAJOR CULTURAL CHANGES HAVE MERGED INTO A SINGLE MASSIVE CULTURAL SHIFT My wife and I recently enjoyed meeting Christian author and apologist Josh McDowell when he spoke at a...

GREAT REWARDS AWAIT US WHEN WE RESPOND WELL TO DIFFICULT PEOPLE Have you ever met a person who just seemed to ooze grace and dignity, whose actions and words were...

REMEMBER THE PRIZE AT THE END OF THE RACE Last week we said “Don’t resent exercise machines if you want to be fit.” In a gym, every piece of exercise...

DON’T RESENT EXERCISE MACHINES IF YOU WANT TO BE FIT Imagine it is December 31, and you have made the New Year’s resolution to become physically fit. So you go...

GOD MUST BE GOOD IF HE IS TO BE WORTHY OF WORSHIP There are those who, presumably out of good motives, say, “We must worship God simply for who He...

NEUROSCIENCE REVEALS HOW TO ACCELERATE THE PROCESS OF RENEWING OUR MINDS In Part I of this series, I made the point that the first step in escaping the riptide of...

SCRIPTURE REVEALS THE KEY TO ESCAPING THE CULTURAL RIPTIDE Last week I made the point that the first step in escaping the riptide of modern culture is realizing that modern...

MODERN CULTURE HAS A POWERFUL NEGATIVE INFLUENCE ON AN AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE I started last week’s blog by saying that every moment of every day something in our soul is...

POWERFEED YOUR SOUL WITH TRUTH, BELIEF AND REPETITION. Every moment of every day something in our soul is being fed and something is being starved. Because we live in a...