We all want our life to count for something significant and permanent in nature. Let’s consider three things that can make that desire a reality in your life.

Over the course of several days at the revival, she witnessed men, women, and children respond to the conviction of sin and the overwhelming mercy of God. She observed people prostrate on the ground as they humbled themselves before a holy God, crying out to God for rescue from their sin, shouting and rejoicing for the forgiveness of their sin, singing, praying, preaching, and exhorting others to be done with sin and come to Christ.

Marriage, like a marathon training, requires consistent and diligent choices. You may be reading this and thinking, there’s no way my marriage will be anything but what it already is. That simply is not true. To repeat an earlier principle, nothing changes until something changes. Don’t wait for your spouse to change. Start with any one of the suggestions listed and consistently apply it. Will it be hard? You bet it will. Will it be rewarding to explore and experience new levels of trust and intimacy in your marriage? You bet it will.

Your feelings will declare that God has abandoned you, has left you alone to find your way out of the dark and desolate place you may be walking through.

I think I know this about you, that like me, you hope there is the possibility of miracles. It’s true, we don’t always see the miracle we hope to see. However, my personal disappointment in an outcome must not steal a sustaining hope… that miracles are possible.

People seem to have opposite reactions to new opportunities and new beginnings. For some it is exciting and energizing, while others respond with the “here we go again” attitude. Whether it’s a new job, a new position, a new relationship, or a new project, the mindset you bring to that opportunity will in large part contribute to your success.

Untold stores of 9/11.

My problem, maybe yours too, is that with all these strange explanations of the resurrection of Jesus out there, it’s really hard to know what to believe.

Adolescence is a period of life spent at the crossroads. It’s a time marked by overwhelming change, numerous questions, and a search for answers.

People often ask, “What’s so special about Jesus? Why is He the only way someone can know God?” Christians are often accused of being narrow-minded because we assert there is no other way.

With so many opposing views floating around, how can we tell what is right or wrong —what is true and what is false?

No matter where you are in the process , what I am about to tell you is key to your successful total money makeover: sit down and write out a budget for next month and plan to stick to it.

How important is character? Ask the discouraged investors whose life savings were lost in the aftermath of Enron, Tyco and WorldCom debacles; the answer will be “character is worth everything.” Questionable accounting procedures and lavish lifestyles of some CEO’s and their top lieutenants have left employees and investors with little or nothing. The financial security of so many people has been shaken by the pervasive dishonesty within corporate America.

Could it be that what we see in the financial institutions of our country are only a sampling of what is underneath the soil of moral relativism and situation ethics? I’m sure for every wrong committed there is someone who can argue for its “rightness.”

Seven years ago, I entered a life I did not choose. At 20 years old, I broke my neck in a diving accident and was paralyzed from the neck down. The doctors told my parents I would never walk again, and I was left with hands that would never again play piano, guitar, or twirl a baton. So often we let situations determine our state of mind. If things are going well, we’re happy. If they aren’t, we’re unhappy. But there is a difference between happiness and joy.

The emotional health we enjoy in the present, often depends on how well we cope with our past.

How effectively we cope with these kinds of hurts will determine what sort of emotional health we are going to enjoy.

Returning to the circle, I walked up behind my wife and began to massage her shoulders. She seemed to enjoy this, so I started to put my arms around her waist to give her a hug. Just then, I looked up at the opposite side of the circle and saw… my wife. I had my hands on the wrong woman!

I made mistakes and at times repeated unhealthy patterns of previous generations but determined to be the best dad I could be. Any parent can do the same. Let me suggest we strive to earn all A’s when it comes to parenting our children.

We don’t like to think about it this way, but it’s a law of nature: Whenever a society abandons God, the moral center around which it spins breaks apart.

God doesn’t turn His back on our longings in indifference; His longings- a greater, graver, holier yearning than anything we know- unfurl in solemn invitation.