For several years I have preached Romans 8:15-18 as a key to filling in one’s insecurities by knowing you are a son or daughter of God. If we know who we are, we won’t have to go looking for it elsewhere. The problem is, this isn’t the type of concept you can hear in a […]
The Secret of Affair Proofing Your Marriage
When you are dating, engaged, and newly married, you never think you’ll have an affair. You hear stories about other people who had them, sometimes prominent Christian leaders, and typically a feeling of both condemnation and heartbreak sweep over you. But the thought that you’d be capable of such a thing is as foreign as […]
Embrace Your Insignificance
I think the majority of our (my) vices, sins, and depths of depression come from the search for significance. We are continually looking for things that will make us feel important and valuable. My wife and I went to see a musical on Sunday at the Wharton Center and even though I don’t have a […]
Marriage is Hard
Our culture loves to obsess over weddings, but is rampant with affairs and divorces. I’m not writing this to judge those who have gone through a divorce, but it is an undeniable reality that the majority of marriages start out with the bang of an elaborate ceremony but end up sputtering out before the vows […]