Understanding God & Faith

One Thursday a year, there are people all over the country who go through a mild moment of torture. It may have happened at one of your Thanksgiving dinners. The… Read More »Being Thankful on Purpose

Listen to the 7-minute podcast version Watch a 1-minute introductory video God is meant to be the primary focus of our lives. Is it that way for you? Everyone’s spiritual… Read More »Charting a Personal Path for Spiritual Growth

Listen to the 4-minute podcast version Watch a 1-minute introductory video As people move through life, they often begin to think more about deeper questions they ignored earlier. Sometimes, they… Read More »What Is Your Worldview?

Listen to the 6-minute podcast version Watch a 1-minute introductory video Everybody loves a great story. A good story has characters: bad guys, good guys, and, of course, the hero.… Read More »Finding Our Role in the Larger Story

What I write about comes from research, study, and personal experience. It’s mostly about life, and how we can live it better. But, in order to do that, we need… Read More »What We Know About God

St. Peter’s Square was packed with hundreds of thousands of people, all there for one reason. My wife and I waited expectantly, and soon a murmur began to spread through… Read More »How God Loves Us

This article suggests ways you can avoid thinking about God.     There are many people who work hard to ignore God. I know, because I was one of them for… Read More »How to Avoid Thinking About God

I didn’t spend much time thinking about God for most of my life. And I had lots of company, because the people I hung around, read about, and saw on… Read More »Thinking About God

Maybe you rarely think about God. Perhaps you aren’t sure—deep down, in the dark times—he is there. Or, you believe there must be a God, but you can’t imagine he… Read More »How to Grow Closer to God

As we climbed the steps, we were drawn in by the energy and the smiles of twenty-somethings genuinely glad to be exactly where they now were. The older, borrowed building… Read More »What We Can Learn From Millennials