Some friends of ours from up north—where there is actually snow in the winter and four distinct seasons throughout the year—visited our home in Houston during the late Spring. They borrowed our car to …
Enjoying the Earth Without Loving the World
Do you view the world as a prostitute or as a mother? I’m serious. Do you see the world God created as a giant temptress, waiting to lure us away from true faith and devotion, or do you see it …
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Are You Wearing Yourself Out Climbing the Wrong Mountain?
Imagine if you were told that everything you wanted most in life could be yours if you could scale this one mountain. You got in shape, gained strength, spent a lot of money to buy climbing gear, …
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The Amazing Power of Thanking God for What He Hasn’t Done
The last time Lisa and I bought a house we made a naïve mistake that we won’t make again: we closed on the house with the builder promising to finish several items that weren’t yet completed. He was a …
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The Most Lovely of Virtues, Part 2
I checked the car-seat buckle for the third time. Allison, our firstborn, was thirty-six hours old and about to come home from the hospital, and I was terrified at having a living and breathing human …
The Most Lovely of all Virtues
(If you’ve ever lost a child to miscarriage, please be careful about reading further—this could be triggering and traumatic.) “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not …