I’ve gone back to my spiritual roots this week.  I’m in Gambier, Ohio on the campus of Kenyon College speaking to 300 high school students at an annual regional youth conference now called “Velocity.”  It began for me 27 years ago when I attended this very conference at a place called “Miracle Camp” outside of [...]

16 years ago today, I married the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.  We met five years earlier at Taylor University.  It was the second day of school, and I was sitting in a classroom when she walked in.  From the moment I saw her, I couldn’t keep my eyes off of her.  We [...]

It’s a statistic that haunts Christian parents all across the country:  65%-85% of churched kids will walk away from the Christian faith during their early adult years.
These are kids that have grown up in the church. Anywhere from six to eight out of every ten kids in your church youth group will wander away from [...]

I do not watch The Oprah Winfrey Show. Let me repeat: I do not watch The Oprah Winfrey Show!
I’m a man, and men are not supposed to watch Oprah. However,a while back, I was made aware that Oprah would be doing a show about fathers…and so with great reluctance, I watched.
It did feel weird. I [...]

I’m sitting here with my family watching So You Think You Can Dance, and I’m thinking: “What would this show be like if it were called So You Think You Can Preach?“  Here are some ideas…
Premise
So You Think You Can Dance is a show that allows dancers (and wanna be dancers) to audition before a [...]

We Christians can really be goofy sometimes.  Take this local church for example.  My church is near this one, but for some reason, the Lord never told me that He was going to show up in the neighborhood to heal people and perform miracles between June 11 and June 14.
I really wish He would have [...]

I recently visited a church where the best parking spots were marked “reserved.”  These spots were not reserved for visitors, widows, orphans, the poor, or visiting missionaries serving heroically in faraway lands.  Nope.  They were reserved for the senior pastor and his wife (whom the church refers to as the “First Lady”).
Michelle and I got [...]

Yesterday was an incredibly sad day.  Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita church.  The 67-year-old doctor was murdered in the foyer at the beginning of the service.  He leaves behind his wife, four children and 10 grandchildren.
Dr. [...]