Jay Lowder was taking a nap after school one day in 1979 when his mom woke him up by screaming at him to get in the car,…
Here you had two boys with labels of disabilities. They lived in abject poverty … had experienced homelessness, loss, trauma, all before the age of 18, and…
Crystal and her family weren’t expecting the devastating, mile-wide tornado that leveled much of southern Joplin, Missouri, six years ago. Neither were the weathermen for that matter.…
The air in the courtroom feels cold, but his hands are clammy. The former drug dealer wonders if the fear inside him is escaping as condensation through…
I lost my mojo. My friend Liz and I call it “losing our Elvis.” You know those seasons in life when things seem to be going well?…
Somewhere along the line, Jamie Blaine, author of "Midnight Jesus," met Vicky. Vicky, through a weird and unfortunate series of events, endured a messy divorce and connected…
Please God, just kill me. I can’t do this anymore. I don’t want to hurt my family. I just want it to stop. Please just make it…
It is a lazy, summer day. My husband suggests we drive out to the St. Clair River, watch the boats, and walk along the river together. We…
Building a Life-Giving Church That Lasts.” Not long after you walk through the doors of East Coast Christian Center in Merritt Island, Florida you’ll see those words.…
This week is a doozy, and as I write, it's only Tuesday. Fires rage in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. An open-shooter alert at Ohio State University shut the campus…
