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My first novel, What Can’t Be Hidden, will launch on September 7 and you can be a part of the team.
The last couple of weeks have been a huge reminder to me that there is still more goodness in this world than bad.
It is always the transformation of the smallest part that leads to the transformation of the whole. 
We groan and cry out in this painful life experience together. 
The cold, hard fact is that there are prayers that God does not answer.
If we were really serious about picking up our crosses daily and becoming servants of all, racial reconciliation would be one of the most essential tasks of the white Christian.
There are many people who struggle to understand a God who unconditionally and preemptively forgives everyone.
The forgiveness of God is unconditional and preemptive.
You may not trust these words now, but there is hope in your pain and suffering.
God, I am done with you.
"Thoughts and prayers" are devoid of meaning, of value, of consequence, of participation, of action, of change.
We live in an age in which stimulation and consumption are all too normal in our lives.
The Good News of the Kingdom of God is not one of the many things.  It is the thing.
The homeowner took a stand against every single person who violated the covenants.
There is no question that we live in an incredibly unique time in history in which there is a strange mass collision of shallowness, superficiality, competing narratives that try to explain our existence, and depersonalization wrought by technology, all accompanied by a growing disdain for spirituality, in general, and religion, in specific, from a hyper-rationalistic culture.
The central purpose, the grand narrative, the over-arching achievement of God is to bring heaven and earth back together as one.
God is not giving up on the creation that was called “good” from the very beginning.
Our time would be better spent discussing how to demonstrate a greater love to the Muslims or how we can better serve them with our actions.