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  • As You Pray, Be Transformed by His Peace

    “And don’t say anything you don’t mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, ‘I’ll pray for you,’ and never doing it, or saying, ‘God be with you,’ and not meaning it”—Matthew 5:33(MSG). It has taken me years […]

  • A life without vision is a lifeless life

    On the way to surf training early last week with the radio playing to wake us up, my 10 year-old son told me that his friend at soccer told him that the song playing (and below) was about suicide. My first thoughts were that he was too young to know about committing suicide, but I […]