Deep down, I envied the thirteen-year-old who sat across the table from me. As we finished our lunches that afternoon, one of the (many) topics we had discussed was 2016’s first presidential debate, which took place only days…
For months on end my daughter complained of stress. Yes, there had been a few especially busy weeks but by the time spring of her senior year hit, I didn’t get it. This should have been the downhill…
God is not like us, but that’s a very good thing.
Five minutes before youth group was set to begin, Josh took Victor aside and said he needed to tell him something important. “Hey, this is going to be my last Sunday as a leader,” said Josh. He was…
I still remember my first smartphone. I was beyond excited to get in on the fledgling technology, and so I purchased a Windows “Pocket PC” off of eBay. I was too frugal to pay for data or texting,…
“I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put…
Rooted is the type of conference that even we employees get excited about. It doesn’t feel like work. Why? Because we get to sit in the pews with an exceptional group of student leaders and have the gospel…
Many years ago, I staged a one-girl protest on the athletic field at my elementary school. At the tender age of six, I was keenly aware of how short I was compared to my classmates, and footraces were…
“You have to get an A on that test!” “You must at least get a 4.0!” Working in an Asian church, these are the pressures my students are often under. They are told that they must perform in…
