Jim and Dee were my neighbors when I was about eleven or twelve years old. Their homes were filled with brokenness—Dee’s house marked by addiction and instability; Jim’s by the lingering wounds of war and the chaos of alcoholism. Dee’s children were often dirty, hungry,

“I pray that the eyes of your hearts may be enlightened in order that you might know…his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength exerted when he raised Christ from the dead” (Eph. 1:18-19 NIV). A

Something that has been made very clear to me as I look across the landscape of the 21st-century American church is this: Jesus has a lot of fans but not a lot of followers. What I mean by that is there are a lot of

Who is your God and how big and trustworthy is He? We all must have big trust in a bigger God. Why? Because that’s what leads to perseverance! We live in a fallen world. We all experience pain and suffering. Jesus said, “These things I