Jul 25, 2018 | blog
After endlessly pestering my mother at the grocery checkout line with my “I wants” for candy and other treats as a child, her patient reply was always, “you don’t need that.” So the next time I stood in that tempting grocery checkout line, I changed my tactic to “I...
Aug 23, 2016 | Journal
Statistics tell us one of the top desires of most Christians is to grow closer to God. But in a recent Barna poll, 65% of us admitted that we were moving away from Him rather than toward Him. We’re losing the battle. We’re losing the battle to “enough.” We never have...Apr 9, 2014 | Journal
Our culture is propelled and energized by the obsession for more and the addictive drug of “not enough.” This addiction began at the beginning of man with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve bit into the apple of the knowledge of good and evil. She gave...Feb 17, 2014 | Journal
The need to excel, and to be great, noble, wise, strong, or a “rock star” is a natural human longing. It’s why we love hero movies. But our media culture today has brainwashed us into thinking that unless we reach “stardom” we are failures. We live in a culture that...