Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is one of my favorite childhood stories. It’s the tale of a young boy who became an orphan when his mother died while giving birth to him. Young Oliver spends the first nine years of his life living at an orphanage under the...

If your experience was anything like mine, you were exposed to porn at a young age. I was twelve years old when a friend showed me a magazine, and it grabbed hold of me. From that point onward, I felt this inexplicable draw to porn. I fell headlong into lust. It...

To move forward with God, we must welcome change. The Lord declares, “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and...

It’s easy to receive a dream from God with great joy, but what are you to do when it feels like everything in your life seems to be taking you in the opposite direction? So many of us get thrown for a loop when our circumstances turn south, wondering what mistake...

I imagine you agree with me about this: How we finish is more important than how we begin. We find this idea affirmed in Scripture, for Ecclesiastes says: Finishing is better than starting. (Eccl. 7:8) In the Christian life, the ultimate finish is to hear our...

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you...