As the old hymn says, God moves in mysterious ways, but how often are we willing to trust that fact, or do we attempt to unveil the Lord enigmatic designs?

God offers us a way to discover joy in the ashes of our lives, but it runs so counter to how we’ve been told to find happiness by the world that it almost doesn’t make sense. 

Christ never forced people to follow him, and he let a lot of people walk away, so are we one of the noncommittal fans or are we an actual disciple of God? 

In the grand Mark Hellinger Theatre in Manhattan, David Wilkerson had just finished preaching a sermon. He headed backstage, and there was a woman and her daughter, smiling at him. He shook hands with them, perhaps expecting a comment on his sermon or a prayer request.

God has gifted us and called us to live a wild life unchained by fear and greed, but how do we escape, if we’ve been caught by those tempting illusions of security? 

“Build an eight-foot-long wooden fence in the forest,” wrote Seth Godin in his book The Icarus Deception.

Scripture talks about the contents of our hearts and how important it is, so how do we determine what is in this secret place within us and purify it?

Malcolm Gladwell, in his famous book Talking to Strangers, wrote about the deeply confusing depths and potential evils of the human heart, although he probably would not have termed it in such a way.

God makes a plan for our lives, so how do we know if we’re successfully following that plan or not?

All too often the church has oversimplified the Great Commission and missed out on the most important trait needed to reach the lost and shepherd the church. 

Dr. Henry Cloud is a psychologist and consultant for corporate leaders who are trying to improve their team dynamics. A new president who was overseeing a merger between two health-care organizations asked Dr. Cloud to sit in on a meeting for the upper-management teams from both companies.

When we’re invited to explain why we follow God, how do we tell this story and why do we tell it the way we do?

Ryan Holiday is the kind of self-made wonderchild that America absolutely loves. His life is the one that many aspire to and parents push their children to attain.

God has given us a gift that he demands we take full advantage of and yet we seldom truly grasp what it is and how to make the most of that gift.

When I was in high school, some family friends took me white water kayaking for eight days on Idaho’s Salmon River, also known as “The River of No Return” thanks in part to the steep granite gorges that it’s carved through the Clearwater and Bitterroot Mountains.

God’s route to an end goal is usually not the one we would’ve taken, so why does he so often insist on taking us the ‘long way around,’ sometimes through pretty terrible circumstances?