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Joel Ansett: Healing and Hope, One Song at a Time Listening to a musical artist live is one of my favorite experiences. I recently saw Joel Ansett (check out his tour), and he was tremendous. Not just a musician, but a true storyteller, and he wove a journey with the purposeful intent for his...

The Difference Between Being Smart and Being Wise (And Why It Matters) Intelligence is frequently lauded above all else in our culture of quick facts, instant answers, and digital credentials. However, as Richard E. Simmons III notes in his writings and Christian mentorship, wisdom is a more...

What Worked? What Didn't? [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come—2 Corinthians 5:17 God’s at work in us—every one of us—whether we can see it or not (Philippians 2:13). He’s working to transform our...

Failure is on the Menu [ 1 min read ★ ] I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities—2 Corinthians 12:10 We men are often just wrong about failure. It seems we’ve all decided that if we ever experience failure, we're then...

5 Books That Shaped My Rule of Life and Quiet Life Pursuit Later this week, I am headed to the beach to celebrate my wife, Katie McLain, and her birthday. One of the things I am most excited about, besides being with our family as we celebrate, is the chance to read. Our beach trip earlier in...

How to Handle Your Child When They Have a Tantrum During a recent counseling session, Monica, 40, complained about her two-year daughter Abigail, crying too much and being unsure about how to handle her. This is a common concern of parents with young children whom I meet with for counseling...

Blessed to Bless [ 1 min read ★ ] Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap—Luke 6:38 Have you been blessed? [Pause for a moment to consider.] What’s your reaction to that question? Is it easy to see how and how much...

Want Some Courage? [ 1 min read ★ ] I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus—Philippians 3:14 In some respects, we know the men we’d like to become. For one, we’d like to be courageous for God, not simply surviving these lives, but...

Go Small to Go Big [ 1 min read ★ ] So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone—Galatians 6:10 Once we’ve decided to do something, we men often like to “go big.” We think to ourselves: if we’re going to do this thing, let’s really do it. We can...

Three Days in Niagara Falls, New York Last updated on: September 11, 2025 at 7:55 pm by Beverly R. Green Psalm 42:7 “Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.” Three Days in Niagara Falls, New York Every year, my husband gives me a...

Look Again, Harder This Time [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . and they shall call his name Immanuel . . . God with us—Matthew 1:23 We men often feel alone. Even surrounded by family, friends, work colleagues, we can still feel very much alone. These feelings—not of...

The Best Part of the New Earth, Enjoying God’s Presence The 1998 movie What Dreams May Come portrays Heaven as beautiful but lonely, because a man’s wife isn’t there. Remarkably, someone else is entirely absent from the movie’s depiction of Heaven: God. That movie’s viewpoint mirrors numerous...

Regrets Can Be Positively Transforming When you (God) open your hand, they are satisfied with good things Psalm 104: 28 I should have listened to him. Him being my husband. It felt like an ah-hah moment that arrived a little too late for much damage control to take place. And yet, isn’t our...

Beaten by the False Gospel of Busyness One of my favorite quotes comes from Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without a Country. Vonnegut remarks, “Progress has beat the heck out of me” (Vonnegut 2005, 56). I feel like that. We are swept up into a sea of busyness for progress through technology, thought...

A Pernicious Loop [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything—Acts 17:25 There are few more powerful (and potentially harmful) forces at work in the lives of men than the When/Then lie. It goes like this: when we get...

Confessions of a Weary Daughter — And God My Faithful Father Journaling has always helped me keep my thoughts and prayers more focused! ~ photo created by chat gpt by author. Have you ever found yourself in a season where you just feel like you are “spinning your wheels,” as the saying goes...

You're Designed for Extremes [ 1 min read ★ ] I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot—Revelation 3:15 There are three approaches to life with God: All In; All Out; and, in the middle, between those, a third...

5 Words of True Worship Isaiah 58:6-12 In the book of Isaiah, chapter 58, God’s people were doing religious rituals like fasting (not eating to show devotion). They wondered why God did not seem pleased with them. Through the prophet Isaiah, God explained that true worship is more than just...

The Old Day is Ending | Renewal has Come This list of Scripture was birthed out of a couple days of prayer. Every once in awhile songs will come to me like I suppose they would to a D.J. I’ve made many lists on Spotify. I’ve been listening to this one a lot lately CLICK At times it’s the...

Can Marriage Counseling Save My Marriage? As a marriage counselor, I’ve witnessed firsthand the benefits of my clients learning to manage conflict, developing new skills for enhancing their relationship, and restoring broken trust. This is what can happen with the support of a skilled...