Well, January did not start the way I had hoped. The bitterly cold weather only heightened the fact that I began the New Year under the weather, with an unknown virus that had stolen my sleep, and fatigued my body for days. Meetings were postponed, and ministry work was put on hold. So instead of hitting the New Year running as...

Recently I was teaching at my church on the topic of “hope in light of hopeless circumstances.” Naturally, I was telling parts of my own story, particularly what was going through my mind after finding out that I was responsible for an at-fault, drunken driving accident where an innocent man was killed....

Have you ever felt like you failed miserably in a trying situation? Maybe you lost your temper or spewed out some careless words that you couldn’t take back. I know it’s happened to me. And oddly enough, it’s after processing the circumstances at hand, that I have come to the realization that even in my weakness when things go...