Purposeful Prayer & More

Hidden at the top of the pile of pages, the very next paper waiting to be used, was my very important...

Sitting alone, he realized something uncomfortable: basketball hadn’t just been hard work—it had slowly become the thing he trusted most, thought about most, and measured himself against. Basketball had quietly replaced...

Recently, I began having more serious issues with my car. However, I wasn’t interested in letting God do anything to change the circumstances of the ever-worsening car. I figured that even if I had a brand-new car, I would still have issues to deal with. Finally, I let go and...

Earnest Foods is a quaint, wholesome organic food store that is closed on Saturdays to honor the seventh-day Sabbath. Earnest closed his store early on Friday evenings and kept it closed all day on Saturdays. That was unheard of for a grocery store, since Friday evenings and Saturdays were the busiest shopping times. Some considered it a foolish business decision to close during the most active shopping hours, but...

The King of the universe sees me, and I am not invisible. And how do I respond to such a call? Do I find myself too busy? Do I feel He is asking too much? Is my desire to say yes—but only if...

It’s with much emotion that I said farewell to my job today, and to many great colleagues who made these last four years the best years of my career. As I said goodbye, I shared the following as a guidepost for my life going forward: “I trust the next chapter because I know the Author.” So, what does the next chapter of my life look like? In this next chapter, I will...

How often do we underestimate the influence of our everyday life and an intentional and purposeful walk with God? Reflecting on this, I think of the profound influence a friend and her family had on me early in life. It changed me forever. I met my...

For a long time, I believed I was on the right path, but as I grew older, something didn’t feel right. All these religious activities that were supposed to bring me closer to God began to feel more like empty routines—rituals that didn’t change my heart. Despite my constant prayers and church attendance, I started to...

The only way we can have peace in this world is by...

While I walked to my car holding onto my new medicine, many thoughts raced through my mind. “I am officially crazy. What’s wrong with me? Now I need this special medicine to help me get better! I’m a lost cause!” After I got into my car, I sat for a while, just crying and crying. Then my sadness turned into anger. I was mad! I began to drive and head towards the freeway when I suddenly remembered how my dad died. He was killed when...

It was a hot and humid day on November 18, and excitement was in the air. We were about to have a front-row seat for the MAVEN spacecraft's launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The countdown to lift-off would soon begin…

God counted each day in that first week, but He did not name each day; He called day one the “first day." Likewise, days 2 through 6 were assigned ordinal numbers. It was only the seventh day that God named—calling it the Sabbath. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible do we find...