I’m thinking about going for a walk. I need one. I spent almost two weeks of this month in a sedentary state...
As we have considered Ephesians 3:20, we have seen that God "is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or...
The Spring 2013 issue of Leadership Journal interviewed pastors Craig Groeschel and Kyle Idleman.
I'll never forget the very first time I drove a motorized vehicle. My friend's dad had just bought a motorcycle for riding off-road. It wasn't anything particularly powerful. As I recall, it was a...
We have now come to a biblical passage that has made a huge difference in my life. In 1991, when I began...
As a child growing up in the Midwest, Sunday afternoons seemed to last forever. After a lunch of pot roast with potatoes...
Blogger and long-time High Calling member Simply Darlene interviewed two very ordinary young men who did something quite extraordinary: they dropped everything...
They tossed their backpacks and lunch bags on the floor mats before tumbling into the mini-van in a flurry of sneakers, skinned...
We forget who the real heroes are. In our celebrity-centric society, the wrong people are treated like heroes and the right ones aren't. Heroism, by my definition, means you take a risk, you...
Last year, my friend Gaines did something either very heroic or very ludicrous. He was a programmer at Echo Valley, the part of Laity Lodge Youth Camp that serves teenagers. In this role, Gaines...
In Ephesians 3:18, Paul prays that we might "grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ."...
I'm writing this reflection in the middle of the summer in the United States. In this season, thousands of people are camping out, cooking on an open grill, enjoying the fresh scent of...
Psalm 60 was written in a time when Israel had been reeling under God’s judgment. He had used Israel’s enemies to discipline the people for their faithlessness. In this context, David cried out...
Twelve years ago, I remember standing in the kitchen of our first home, the one my wife and I bought about eighteen months into our marriage. It was very early on a Saturday...
A friend leaned over the table at Starbucks yesterday morning during a pre-work chat and confided, "You really don’t want to know...
When I was in school, I was taught to avoid mixed metaphors. A mixed metaphor combines two metaphors in a way that...
Last night, my wife Margie read from and signed copies of her book, The Exact Place. Anita had filled Toad Hall with candles and flowers, arranged chairs so everyone could hear easily, made...
Almost exactly fifty years ago, I went forward at a Billy Graham crusade in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. One might truly say I responded to the invitation to become a Christian or...
Why am I a pastor? I can’t make God heal people or fix their lives. I can’t make God speak to people or answer their questions. I can’t make God palatable to postmodern...
"If you want to be successful, you need to discover your inner power. You need to find the strength that is hidden within you. You need to believe in yourself. If you have...
