Weekly Devotionals and Blogs
Can We Become Addicted to God?
Dear Keith, I am in the process of working the Twelve Steps in a small group and am amazed at the challenge and healing it has already brought into my life. Though I have been a Christian for twenty years, and was raised in a wonderful church, I feel like a new...
Should I Check My Brains at the Door When I Go To Church?
Keith: I’m a new Christian. I’ve recently been talking to some of my atheist friends, who agree with some atheist scientists who are very brilliant men who say that surrendering to God is very naïve intellectually since neither the existence of God nor the...
Sharing Our Real Stories
Keith: About a year ago I started going to church again. I was raised to believe that after a real commitment and surrender to God, we can live a moral life and have good relationships. I’m still having strong temptations that are a real struggle to resist, and I...
People’s Irritating Faults Can Give Clues to My Own
Dear Keith, Recently I felt that God was urging me to write a letter to another Christian telling her that she was arrogant and unloving and was very vain about her physical appearance. In what I considered to be obedience I wrote the letter. My friend not only did...
Being Transformed from the Inside Out
Keith, I’ve recently come back to church. Rather, a good way to put it is I’ve found a church that explains Christianity in a way that makes more sense than what I got out of church when I was young. The service I’ve been going to is designed for people who are...
Loneliness: The Hunger that Drives Us Out of Hiding
For years I have been a basically lonely person, actually it seems like always. When I became a Christian as a single adult some years ago, it helped, but I was still lonely. I figured it was natural though since I wasn’t married. But fifteen months ago I married a...
Why Am I Afraid to Be Myself?
Sometimes I feel like a terrible phony. I don’t feel as if I can be myself anywhere. I seem to have at least five different personalities—most of which don’t feel like the real me. I’m one person at home with my family, another at work, another when I go out on...
Resenting the People – a Minister’s Trap… with Room for All
Hi Keith! Here’s a question about something that’s been bothering me for quite a while. I’ve been a minister for over ten years. For most of that time, I have felt very fulfilled even though I’ve worked really hard in the many roles of being a pastor, a preacher,...
Transformation: A New World in the Midst of the Old One
Our teenaged son went to a summer camp a normal, interesting kid who was only interested in football (and I assume, sex). But when he got home last week he was a religious freak, spouting Bible verses out of context with his eyes shining like his team had just won...
