Suffering

God blessed Leanne and me with four children, and for some odd reason, all four of them decided to run cross-country in high school. […]

When hard things hit, most of us reach for the same handful of explanations. God must be mad at me. God must be too […]

Have you ever noticed how some movies save their best trick for the final scene? There is a literary technique that films and books […]

There is a particular kind of story we never get tired of watching. An arrogant, self-absorbed man gets humbled, gets rebuilt, and comes out […]

On a dark and rainy evening, the church gathered for a Good Friday service—not merely to observe a somber tradition, but to journey to […]

The message began with a powerful story about a friend facing crisis. This individual, facing the aftermath of marital betrayal and struggling through seasons […]

Years ago, when I was the young adult pastor at a church in another Iowa city, a young woman made an appointment to see […]