“Love expects the best, doesn’t it? But if I learned anything from my mentor and friend, it was simply, ‘It’s better to give than to receive.’” We were excited! A major Christian publisher was publishing my first book. A Christian author had asked to write my story after hearing me speak at a conference. I had no idea at the time that I was going to be leaving my very comfortable corporate job. The publisher invited my wife and me to come to...

Letter 22 Themes: Spiritual dossiers; hedonism; pleasures of God; power of Christian influence; music and silence. Screwtape-Letters_-22Download Letter 23 Themes: Value of intelligent Christian community; corrupted spirituality; “historical Jesus;” social justice. Screwtape-Letters_-23Download Letter 24 Themes: Spiritual ignorance and pride; need for social validation; humility; arrogance; the inner ring....

“This is hilarious! Lynne, you’ve got to look at this,” I said to my bride as I watched the Reel on Facebook play out for the third time. Lynne doesn’t do Facebook (she’s smarter than I am), so she somewhat reluctantly came over to look. The video showed two dogs on opposite sides of a driveway gate snarling at each other, lips barred, and growling. Then the gate slowly began to open and they both stopped growling and just looked at each other....