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As I began to think about Holy Week, I remembered these words I wrote nine years ago from a hospital bed on Easter morning. I hope it encourages you. Momentary affliction is our current reality, but resurrection is our eternal promise. And resurrection dawns in the...

If there is a mantra of the modern world, it's "be true to yourself." It's the spoken and unspoken worldview that drives so much of our culture today. It can even infect how we follow Jesus, embracing faith as a self-help strategy to live our best lives now....

At the moment, I’m sitting at the table in my apartment, watching the snow fall out my window on campus at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis. We are receiving our third or fourth “snowmageddon” this winter and I’m watching the wind blow the snow...

Today, the question of the age is not “will you be worshipping,” but it has become “what are you worshipping?”

My wife and I are less than a year away from an empty nest. We've known it was coming, but as every "last" crosses our calendar – last parent/teacher night, last high school football game, last school musical, last spirit week – there is a bittersweet reminder that a...

A few minutes before opening curtain, my friend Krista (the fine arts director at my son's high school) asked if I could pinch hit on the pre-performance devotional. I soon found myself standing in the middle of 75 full-costumed cast members looking to me for some...