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Mark 16:1-11 – How To Seek God Sometimes I have Sisyphean sissy fits. “I want to see Jesus. I don’t see Jesus. Waaahhhhh!” I sound like a child who was promised to see Santa but couldn’t. Why Sisyphean? In English, the word “Sisyphean” has come to mean “”endless and unavailing, as labor or...

What If My Husband Is Viewing Porn? If a wife discovers her husband has been secretly viewing porn, feeling “violated and disappointed” are understatements What if you discover your husband is viewing porn? Trust takes a huge hit. And intimacy suffers. During an episode of a popular show on...

You Can’t Have Your Intimacy And Your Control, Too When my husband and I married, I thought it was my responsibility to teach him how to do things the right way. (My way.) When he called me a control freak, I got mad. But I didn’t know how to stop being a control freak and let my husband...

3 Steps To Achieve A Healthy And Balanced Relationship I hear over and over from women who email or meet with me: “Why can’t I allow myself to be intimate with my partner?” Or: “How come I feel like running every time he seems to take our relationship to the next level.” For a relationship...

Keeping Fueled & Aflame [ 1 min read ★ ] Take your everyday, ordinary life . . . and place it before God as an offering—Romans 12:1 The author of Hebrews laid down a challenge: “. . . let us consider how...

What Jesus Wanted His Disciples (And Us) To Know Of the four Gospels in the New testament, I have a particular fondness for the Gospel of John – an account of Jesus’ life written by the disciple he was closest too. It is not a stretch to see John as Jesus’ dearest friend and confidante. It...

Call Out or Call In? [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free—John 8:32 We cannot mature in our faith without community. We just cannot. The process of maturing...

How Can I Convince My Husband To Go For Marriage Counseling? Dear Terry, Brian and I have been married for seven years and things are going downhill. There were a lot of red flags when we were dating but I ignored them because Brian swept me right off my feet and said he really wanted to make...

Want To Be A Better Dad? Here’s How To “Remodel” Your Fathering. As my wife will gladly tell you, I run very little risk of being called “handy” with a hammer or with any other tool. Indeed, it’s pretty clear that when God was passing out the carpentry and mechanical skills, I must have been...

The Easy Life: How Work, Rest, And Meaning Intertwine We went on vacation recently and it was wonderful. Work has been pretty busy and pretty intense lately. We love what we get to do, but it sometimes feels overwhelming. The pressure gets weighty, even though it is mostly a pressure we put on...

Begin to Pull it All Together [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you—Luke 11:9 You can move, brother, into "an entirely new...

Did Jesus Have Fear Like us? Did Jesus have fear like us? Recently, Pastor Jimmy Evans, preached a guest sermon at Ed Young’s Fellowship Church in Texas, in which he discussed why Christians face fear and how to overcome anxiety in their lives. Evans said, “Jesus had more fear on His way to...

How Do I Stop My Emotional Affair? Dear Terry, I’ve been spending time outside of work with a co-worker, Eric, and sending text messages to him for a few months. I am married and have three children. My husband, Todd, would leave me if he knew and I’m feeling guilty about my relationship...

The Cult Of More Why do we want what we already have? I was on the subway the other day and could not help but see the phone screen of the woman sitting next to me. She was in her sixties (I would guess) and was staring at her phone as if it held the secrets to the universe. I noticed she...

How The Apostle Peter Reconciled A Good God With Pain And Suffering In the first century, in the Middle Eastern province of Galilee, part of the larger Roman Empire, there was an uneducated, most likely illiterate fisherman named Simon. He spent his days sleeping and resting and his nights...

This Is My Father’s World . . . The urban garden at the College and School The beauty of the moon last night reminded me of the goodness of the world. When I walked over to the gardens, fields, and copse of trees behind the College and School, I saw beauty, design, and...

No, Actually, We Must Choose [ 1 min read ★ ] And he said to them, "Follow me"—Matthew 4:19 We confront two mutually exclusive, diametrically opposed if-then statements, each claiming to be true. The first...

The Choices That Steer Your Life Someone I respect once said: ‘If you want to know which direction your life is going in, look at the things you do every day’. You know when a single sentence cuts through all the noise and speaks straight to your heart? It was one of...

Sorry Tim Keller, People Reject Christ Because They Reject The Bible Tim Keller is no stranger to saying some rather enigmatic things on social media. Over the past few years especially, he has made some rather grand-sweeping statements that might betray a level of rhetorical flair for some...

Here’s a Little Heresy [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world?—Matthew 16:26 "Life’s not all about success." Those are fairly heretical words for most of us men—men...