The Last Emperor: Dealing With Our Naughtiness

In Bernardo Bertolucci’s Italian/Chinese epic, The Last Emperor, a young child is anointed as the last emperor of China.

“God Is Able” Theology vs. Grasshopper Me-ology

Whatever giants may be standing before you today, let them not meet in you a grasshopper vision or a defeatist attitude.

Grief Can Be Messy… and Beautiful

Grief can be messy. And the longer we live in this broken and fallen world, the more sorrowful moments we will encounter.

How Jesus Restored Dignity

Jesus never restored dignity by glossing over sin, but we cannot refute the way that he valued those who had been marginalized by society.

Grace for Slow Learners

Through all of our slow learning, God will never abandon us to ourselves. Think about that as you seek to abide in Him this week.

Walt Disney: It’s Not About the Budget

In 1963, Walt Disney hired Alice Davis to contribute her skills in designing costumes for his “It’s a Small World” attraction.

From Grumbling to Gratitude

The man who led me to faith in Jesus once said, “God has brought you through the ocean, He’s not going to let you drown in the bathtub.”

Faithful Mothers, “and God Knew”

In the second chapter of Exodus we see the faith of a desperate mother in action.

Take Up Your Cross: Come and Die

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Around the turn of the 20th century, there was a band of people who believed that.

A “Deeper Still” God

Corrie ten Boom and her sister, Betsie, were sent to a Nazi prison camp for hiding Jews in their Holland home during World War II.