Life & Faith

When I was a kid, the Bible was a collection of wondrous, miraculous bedtime stories about God and his famous people who lived long ago. But as I grew older, I walked away from bedtime stories [...]

I'm just going to come right out and say it: applying the Bible to our lives is overrated. When we apply it to Jesus instead, we unlock unexpected insights that prove to be more valuable than [...]

  I’m always trying to show my sons what it means to live out their faith, to bring Jesus with them everywhere they go. This is not always easy. No matter what your age or spiritual [...]

I didn’t even hesitate when I saw the subject line in my inbox with the words “The most powerful way to unclutter your life," I was promptly lured into a click. Within minutes I was reading the [...]

I once spent three weeks without a phone. In that time I was...challenged. It was hard not to be able to call or text my friends and family, but after awhile I saw some good in the experience as [...]

Lately I've been noticing a trend: in the midst of increasingly-present smartphones, tablets, TV's, and gaming devices, I've been spotting more and more people taking breaks from media, and I [...]

It's easy for us to mold Jesus into our ideas about him, but Rick shares in this video that these ideas about Jesus are flawed. The only way to really know Jesus is...

I've never shared this publicly, but I have a super power. I can enter any museum, zoo or aquarium in the world with my family and go through it in 30 minutes. The trick is to tell my family, [...]

There are some things that I'm just not good at. I once had to ask my father-in-law for help changing my wiper blades. Not "Dad, can you spare a twelve-gauge crescent wrench so I can [...]

Always an overachiever, I bought a day planner in October to get a head start on goal-setting for the new year. I’m normally not a goal person, but lately I’ve been feeling like I could use some [...]