What’s In Your Hand: Using Your God-given Talents
Perhaps you’ve said “I want God to use me!” I know many believers who feel that way. Perhaps your daily…
Spiritual Life
How Your View of God Affects Your Health
There has been considerable debate for centuries about the correlation between spirituality and health. One of the most interesting findings…
How To Take Charge of Your Health As A Christian
Christians have a mixed reputation when it comes to living healthfully. Individuals who are involved in a religious community and…
Change One Small Thing, and Change Your Future
Just yesterday I talked with a young lady who is enjoying reading Live Healthy, Live Whole. She identified with Mary,…
Intimacy Is Worth the Risk
Get too close and you’re likely to get hurt. No wonder many people are afraid to take the risk. Most…
How to Disinfect Your Shame
We are all wounded. Life happens to us. People hurt us. And we hurt ourselves. But when the infection of…
30 Things To Be Grateful For
Life is difficult. Bad things happen, and challenges come every day. One of the best ways to meet those challenges…
Help For Connecting You With God
Marilyn would have preferred to be almost anywhere else that day. She had faced similar medical issues in the past,…
Are You A Second-Class Christian?
It had been a couple years since I had heard from her. Yesterday her message was painful to read: “My…
4 Ways Your Health Impacts Your Spiritual Life
We have some wonderful friends who work with the organ donation program in our home state. Nancy, a veteran transplant…
7 Ways You Can Take Charge of Your Mental Health
We each have our bag of mental challenges to deal with. Some of us have greater emotional vulnerabilities than others.…
You Don’t Have To Be Happily Married
There’s no checkbox for “relationship status” on the employment application God gives you. And regardless of how the culture in…
Live Healthy, Live Whole!
It’s here! Your Prescription for Healthy Living, Loving Relationships, and Joyful Spirituality Have you ever tried to have a meaningful…
How Shall We Then Live?
Yesterday we celebrated Easter in remembrance of when Jesus rose from the dead, never to die again. The historical evidence…
Easter for the 21st Century: You Don’t Have To Live Like This!
Flattered Woman Smiling — Image by © Royalty-Free/Corbis Today is Good Friday. Sunday is Easter. Yes, Christians believe that Jesus’…
7 Ingredients to Rebuilding Trust Between You and Your Spouse
A long-haul truck driver called our radio program. He worried about his wife every time he left home. It wasn’t…
Christianity in One Word
Denominations. Cultures. Traditional vs. contemporary. Grace vs. good works. Community. Just love everyone. What is Christianity really about anyway? Controversy…
Why Do Some People Beat the Odds?
Why do some people beat the odds and others don’t? Some people remain stuck. Their addictions are just as strong…
How God Deals with Repeat Sinners
It’s been too long. You’ve smoked too long. You’ve been mean and judgmental too long. You’ve slept with too many…
10 Places to Find Quiet in a Noisy World
The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Gone are the days when the majority of people lived in a small town…
How to Say “I’m Sorry”
I’m not proud of it. I gave someone I didn’t know a difficult time, and I had to say “I’m…
How to Get Through Spiritual Dryness
Something just feels off. You try to pray, but it feels as though no one is listening. You try to…
45 Healthier or Uplifting Distractions
It’s been a bad day. You’re frustrated, tired, anxious, and/or upset. Or perhaps you can’t pour over those numbers or…
How to Turn It Over to God
In Christian-eze it’s been said various ways: “Give it to God.” “Turn it over to God.” “Let God do the…
How to Pray When Making a Big Decision
Taking a business risk. Getting married. Going back to school. Moving to another city. There are times in your life…
What to Do If You Feel Guilty After Watching 50 Shades of Grey
Three years ago the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy became a publishing phenomenon. And 10 days ago the movie version…
5 Ways to Pray For Your Wife
You know you “should” pray for your wife. And you want to. You really do. But you feel awkward. Long…
5 Keys to Having the Husband You Want
You want your husband to understand you, love you, and be there for you when you need him. You want…
What’s God’s Job? What’s My Job?
Some things God will do for you. Those are things you cannot do for yourself, and He does them spectacularly.…
5 Questions to Ask When You Dislike Someone
Not long ago I posted 5 Questions to Ask When Someone Doesn’t Like You. But what about when YOU dislike…
What’s GOOD About Shame?
Can there ever be anything good about shame? You may have heard it a lot: “You ought to be ashamed…
Three Kinds of People, and How to Tell Them Apart
People can make or break you. One key relationship may decide whether you experience success or failure, happiness or misery.…
God Wants You Uncomfortable
“God, help me, please!” I believe God loves those prayers. There’s never a wrong time to pray, though sadly it…
The Enormous Power of “I Don’t Care!”
Next to “No” the most powerful sentence in the English language is “I don’t care.” It makes you downright dangerous!…
Six Things I’d Say To My Younger Self
I just had a birthday. At my age that’s both good news and bad news. I’m glad I’m still here.…
7 Things to Do If You’re Sad
Have you ever cried so hard and so long you thought it would never end? Or have you become so…
If Grace Is Free, Why Is It So Costly?
Have you ever been presented with an extravagant gift, and only later realized how much it would actually cost you?…
How Do You Know What God Wants You To Do?
Somewhere in the deep parts of our souls we feel as though there must to be more to our lives than earning…
Why Do You Go To Church?
On Sunday morning, or whenever you go to church, what are you looking for? What do you expect when you…
Why You Should Let God Bake Your Bread
People get hungry. Some people starve. Sometimes hunger becomes a matter of life and death. If you don’t eat you’ll…
How to Fill an Empty Marriage
One more night of feeling lonely while lying next to someone who you had hoped would be your soulmate forever.…
5 Questions to Ask When Somebody Doesn’t Like You
There will always be people who don’t agree with you. Some people see the world differently than you do, and…
Reading the Bible in the 21st Century
One of the most amazing ongoing miracles is how God’s Holy Spirit takes words from His Word and uses them…
“I Want to Do More in 2015”
The beginning of the New Year is a bittersweet time for many. Looking back, you may regret some things about…
17 Things to say NO to this New Year
There’s no true difference between 11:59 pm tonight and 00:01 tomorrow morning. For some it will be a moment to…
Did Christmas Disappoint You?
For most of us, yesterday was Christmas. The gifts have been opened. The food has been eaten. The Christmas carols…
Enjoying Sex After Menopause
Some men complain their wives lose interest in intimacy around the time of menopause. Some women complain they can’t enjoy…
Who Will Be Around You On Your Deathbed?
No one wants to die alone. It may feel a bit morbid, but thinking about your last earthly days is…
How to Enjoy Sex With Your Husband
Bedroom conflict is at it again. Husband wants sex with wife and she doesn’t want to give it. Wife wants…
Marks on Your Spiritual Wall: Growing in Grace
If you were to walk into the home where our oldest grandson lives, you’d see a wall with lots of…
