It may seem odd that a family would make a list of idols in America. But, family can be a considerable impediment to discovering and fulfilling your God-given life purpose. I certainly am not adding my voice to the vast numbers...
When I was a child, amusement parks were not the big business they are today. We actually were required to find ways to entertain ourselves that were free or inexpensive at least. When we would visit home, in eastern Kentucky,...
We have this backward idea that what happens in church is sacred, but what happens in the rest of our lives is secular. This division of our hearts and minds is what hinders us from being free to walk with...
Of all the cultures that have had access to excess, America is very likely the most excessive of all. As I have said for many years, our nation is rolling in excess, reveling in luxury, revolting in morals, and rotting...
After Jesus’ resurrection and before He left His disciples, He spoke a clear mandate to these future world changers: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations” (Matt. 28:19). In this mandate no one was exempt from the task...
What is it that fuels the engine of celebrity culture? There is no single answer—the reasons are complex, even contradictory. We want our celebrities to be ordinary, just like the rest of us; then again, we want them to be...
My journey to getting interested in politics started as a young mom taking my boys back and forth to their Christian school everyday. I had come off the mission field, deciding not to join up with Youth with a Mission...
Washington, D.C. is a dark, consuming place where the gods of this world – gods of power and prestige – take center stage. The founders of our nation were constantly having a debate in those early colonial years around the...
Just before the 2018 Texas primary run-off I told a friend, “I don’t think you have lived until you have had almost a million dollars in negative advertising thrown at you.” I was raw and vulnerable in that moment. Almost...
