I know what you’re thinking: “Build a website? We’re ministry leaders, Jim, not web designers! Oh, and did we mention that most of us are poor, too?”  Do not let your hearts be troubled.   ...

by Stephen Trout Leaders are storytellers. They can’t help it. By virtue of their influential positions, their lives are on display – more than most. Through word, and especially example, they write a story...

by Stephen Trout Have you ever considered that, like your eyes and mouth (see Lk. 6:45), your ears have a wireless connection to your heart? Sound strange? It’s true. In fact, your “heart” –...

by Stephen Trout It’s an odd (and humbling) thing to wake up and realize that the glasses you’ve relied on to see are suddenly blurry. Yesterday, they worked just fine; overnight, the darn things...

by Stephen Trout   Lauren Whitman’s daughter was excited about her class hike through a nature preserve – until her glasses disappeared.  She’d hung them on her collar in order to peer through her...

If there’s one thing that’s true of all of us – embedded deep in our hearts from creation – it’s that we ask questions.  We ask because we’re not self-sufficient; we’re dependent creatures. We...

I have an older friend who watches a lot of Youtube videos, mostly about what’s wrong with the world. Sadly, he won’t be running out of videos anytime soon. The issues he covers run...

The problem with our assumptions, someone once noted, is that we tend to assume they’re true. (This, despite that old quip about what assuming does to you and me!) But if, as Einstein posited,...

It’s a precious truth, often quoted: “Children are a “gift from the Lord.” (Ps. 127:3) And it’s most certainly true ! Unfortunately, there’s another aspect of truth that we must take to heart: instead of...

“The resurrection is not a stupendous magic trick but an invasion…” – Timothy Keller In Jesus, God has broken into time and space; the future into the present. As CS Lewis said, “a cleft...