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How much does your life weigh? Imagine you are wearing a backpack. Feel the straps digging into your shoulders.  Imagine everything you have is in that bag: your clothes, your appliances, your house, everything. Now try to walk. Hard, isn’t it?  That’s what we do with our lives—we weigh ourselves down. Now imagine you set [...]

Summer makes for a great time to read. As I have said before (and it is not original with me), you will become who you are in no small part because of the people you meet, the places you go, and the books you read. Thus I just went to Greece, met some very cool [...]

Note: this is a post written by me with a SEBTS student named Sabrina Crawford which was originally published here. Aphrodite. Alexandra. Nikoleta. Dimitrius. Pantelis. Adonis. Names like these may bring to mind an image of an ancient Greek god or goddess, or names marked by obscurity to the American context.  But to those of [...]

A few years ago in a Washington, DC Metro train station a street musician performed with a violin. If you have spent much time on trains in cities anywhere on the earth you know amateur musicians often play in such venues for any little spare change they can muster from those standing nearby. So what [...]

”In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.” Nia Vardalos “For my part, it was Greek to me.” William Shakespeare Today, while many of my pastor friends were enjoying great preaching at the Pastors Conference in Orlando, I painted a fence. I sweated more than I have in a while, but [...]

I fly on planes. A lot. This Friday I am leaving for Europe in fact. If you fly, you know the drill. First, the boarding pass drill. Make sure you get that thing printed or you will not get through security. Next, the security drill. Do not kid about bombs or explosives, have a quart-sized [...]

[Note: the following, written by Danny Akin and me, was first published at betweenthetimes.com] Years ago a man far away from the U.S. got an idea. Driven with zeal and passion, he convinced others to join him in this idea. This man led no great army at the time. He had no nation under his [...]

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.” Mark Twain For the past several years I have had the joy of speaking for a ministry called Student Leadership University. This is indeed a bar-raising ministry (see my book Raising the Bar for more info). One [...]

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur [...]

“A good dad will leave a stamp on his daughter that endures her entire life.” James Dobson “Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.” Bill Cosby Michelle and I thought for a long time we would never have children. When Josh came along, he [...]