Surrender to Who? Surrender to Who?
Decision-Making

Surrender to Who?

Another dimension of surrender has to do with who you’re surrendering to. Surrender is hard because it’s humiliating. It’s admitting you’ve got nothing left to fight with. It’s failure from an ego perspective, so it’s…

How Do I Surrender? How Do I Surrender?
Decision-Making

How Do I Surrender?

I’ve thought a lot about this idea of surrendering. It’s a word that isn’t used much in our culture. It’s almost anti-American to think of surrendering….to anyone or anything. Here’s what I’ve come to understand….

Set Her Free Set Her Free
Marriage

Set Her Free

(Today’s post is an excerpt from Chapter 9 of the book: What Radical Husbands Do: 12 Steps to Win and Keep Your Wife’s Heart.)   You don’t have a wife like you have a car….

Teenager Troubles Teenager Troubles
Parenting

Teenager Troubles

  The parental goal for the teenage years is to get them through it. Every now and then, we hear some amazing story of a teenager who’s public about their faith, helping others, and walking…

5 (More) Thoughts on Prayer 5 (More) Thoughts on Prayer
Prayer

5 (More) Thoughts on Prayer

With the goal of ‘emptying my bucket’ on the subject, here goes . . . 1. Some of my prayers, if answered, might not be in my best interest or in the best interest of…

Unanswered Prayer Unanswered Prayer
Prayer

Unanswered Prayer

Jesus says (in Mark 11:24) “I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.” We pray (granted with varying amounts of faith) and nothing…

Contentment and Joe Montana Contentment and Joe Montana
Walking the Talk

Contentment and Joe Montana

Arguably the best quarterback ever, Joe Montana had this freakish ability to forget the last play and focus on the next one. None of his energy focused on what didn’t just happen. No worries about…

Testing Your Faith Testing Your Faith
Theology

Testing Your Faith

Everything in your life is going to hell in a hand basket. House problems, marriage problems, business problems, kid problems, mother-in-law problems, money problems, boss problems. “Maybe God is testing your faith,” says your friend….