Very early in Jesus’ ministry he attempts to teach his disciples something that is seemingly ridiculous.  In Matthew 5:44, Jesus says, “Love your enemies and pray for those who mistreat you.”  Now, anyone who has ever had a proper enemy before intuitively knows that “love” is not what you do

Deciphering who you or the people you care about will become might seem like an attempt to peer into the unknowable, but in many ways it’s not. There will obviously be some known-unknowns.  These are things that you may know you don’t know – like which college you go to,

I have written about this before, but it is worth updating and repeating. Before my oldest son was born and my wife and I became parents for the first time, my wonderful mother-in-law gave us a precious gift – a little book of advice and blessings on parenting that she

Anger has gotten a bad rap – undeservedly so.  Anger, like all other human emotions it is an important gift.  Like all other emotions, it’s how we handle it that makes it good or bad. I’m sure the majority of people at some point have witnessed the damage that out-of-control,

No one likes to be condemned or corrected. If you ask almost any group of people what their favorite Bible verse is, and some in the group happen to know a few Bible verses, invariably someone will say something like, “Don’t judge people unless you want to be judged” –

“Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of

I can only think of a couple of topics that have as profound of an impact on individual lives and the human condition as what we believe about and how we navigate sex.  I probably don’t need to tell you this, but it’s a big deal.  It has major implications

Several years ago my wife was invited to a special dinner for people who are influencing their communities here in Atlanta.  We suspect they had the wrong people, but she went anyway. One of the keynote speakers at the dinner was a man who had worked in planned mixed income

Most of us are familiar with the Golden Rule where Jesus tells his followers, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 7:12). It is a command to extend our natural self love, self

A few months ago I wrote a piece called “Race Is A Meaningless Distinction” where I continued my theme that people aren’t color-coded by talking about what little you could know about two people of a different race (a white person and a black person in this example) based on