The kids and I have a game that we love to play. It’s called the “For God’s Glory” game. It’s not really a game, at its root, but they enjoy it like it’s a game. It goes something like this: Me: “Allison, why do we eat?” Allison: “For ...
A thirst for success seems to hound all of us. We all want our lives and efforts to count. We want to be deemed successful, for success gives us worth. The worth of a church is viewed in the same light. It’s all found in the success that a church attains, presuming that that success will be ...
I love the Olympics. I’m crazy about them, actually. Shauna joins me in that craze, and every four years, we clamor around the TV and soak up every minute we can. Our lives are almost divided into four year segments. There were the 2000 Olympics, also known as the San Francisco students, ...
A. W. Tozer once wrote, “The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the church is famishing for want of His presence.” The former we claim to know, the latter we fail to grasp. Both have huge implications for the way in which we live. And to a significant degree, the ...
It’s 8:30 pm on Saturday night and my heart and body aren’t in the same place. The former is at home in Houston, hanging out with my family watching the Olympics. The latter is at DFW, enduring a grueling flight delay. To sweeten the deal, I grab a fruit parfait (don’t judge me) ...
This past week, I was in Dallas for some training and meetings. After I finished, my airport shuttle arrived and I prepared to board. As I did so, two things became immediately clear to me. One was that I had the shuttle all to myself. The second was that as my driver was apparently in a very bad ...
It’s interesting how anxiety can rule me at times. I run countless scenarios through my head of what could go wrong, what I should’ve said, what people think of me, or what I wish would happen. I know intellectually the truth of what we teach our Hope Kids: “Worrying ...
“Dad?” It was the voice of Timothy, our four-year-old, speaking just before we headed to church one Sunday. “Dad, I love Hope Church. I just want to go there and live there forever!” There are words that our kids say that perplex us, confuse us, or maybe even drive ...
God loves to be enjoyed. Scripture reflects this in subtle and striking ways. God created humankind for communion with Him, even walking with them in the garden (Genesis 3). Yet our first parents, Adam and Eve, rebelled, with their sin forcing them out of the garden, and far worse, out of ...
It is a simple question, but a profound one. To answer it requires courage, for the question defines us. Our lives, our legacies, are known by the answer to this question. And the glory of God hinges on what we do with it. It is a simple question, but a profound one: How does my life ...
