When times are easy, suffering can surprise us and mess with our minds so profoundly that we forget who we are in Christ.

Two great lies have been promoted in our culture during the past 20 years. They are told to children in school, students in college, and workers throughout the business world.

A few years ago I was at a local park with some friends. It is a wonderful park, full of swings, sandboxes, slides, and monkey bars. One of my favorite features is a fence that surrounds the playground and keeps …

Why did my administrative assistants keep resigning? My first assistant had stayed with me four years, but the other two had lasted only two years. I was mystified.

Proverbs 20:29 tells us, “The glory of young men is their strength. Gray hair is the splendor of the old.” Or as the Moffat translation puts it, “A young man’s strength is his charm, and gray hairs make even an old man beautiful.”