Weekly Devotionals and Blogs
2010 Christmas Message
Merry Christmas! Wishes for a blessed Christmas come with this note! I tried to write a blog for this week, but couldn’t. Here’s what happened instead. Andrea and I were all set for a quiet Christmas in Austin together since we had been with kids and grandkids for...
An Almost Perfect Gift
Keith, people make me so angry and frustrated when they don’t do what they say they’re going to do. I don’t know what to do when I have these feelings. I can’t seem to let things go without judging and shaming the people I love most—just to prove they’re wrong. Any...
Eternal Life—An Invitation, Not a Reward
Dear Keith, I’m wondering if you could talk about God’s love as you understand it. If God’s love is “unconditional,” as people often claim it is, why does he need people to accept him? Isn’t that a ‘condition’? It seems contradictory to me for Christians to claim...
How Can I Know?
Keith, is the Bible true? And if it is, how can I know it’s true? That’s a good question, one that a lot more Christians wonder about than you would imagine. The simple answer is that since the story is all about God, what God is like, and what God wants from the...
Breathing Underwater
Keith, you write a lot about how a certain kind of small group has helped you learn how to face and deal with real temptations, fears, inadequacies and other painful areas of living. How can you do that? I’m afraid to trust other people enough to be honest about my...
A Different Way of Seeing
Since so many scientists and educators and psychologists are atheists, how can I believe it’s possible to have a personal relationship with God? People who don’t believe in God point out how stupid some people are who say they do believe. How can I re-think about...
Palms Sweating, Teeth Chattering and All
You often talk about trying to find ways to help other people when you feel like no one really loves you. How does your helping someone else help you? Very good question. Because I am a writer and have written a lot of books about trying to live my ordinary walking...
A Rim of Light
With elections just completed and Thanksgiving creeping up on us, we are in the midst of the screamers on the radio and television talk shows warning us of the “crooks” running for office, or the “blindness and the incompetence” of our elected representatives, and of...
Just Be There
Dear Keith, I’m having trouble with my prayer life. I’m not getting a lot of my prayers answered. (And I’m praying “in Jesus’ name.”) He indicated that he would answer prayers that were prayed in his name. Can you shed any light on that? And can you advise me...
