“Can I braid your hair?” The question came from one of the girls in my church youth group back when we were in high school. “Oh,” I said with a coy giggle as I pushed back the thick curly locks pouring over my shoulders like a hirsute waterfall, “I guess so.” My hair...
This is the first post in a four part series titled: 4 Tips to Help Your Son Have Healthy Body Image. Your son understands the world and what it means to be a man, in large part, through you, dad. He sees you driving in traffic and reacting to that guy who just cut...
Modern man has grown soft. It happened long before the internet. But being able to click a few buttons on a smartphone and have food show up minutes later hasn’t helped. Many problems we struggle with today, including body image issues, are a symptom of the relative...
There are many fascinating questions we might ponder about Jesus. What was he like as a child? Yes, we have a few stories that offer insights, but for the most part, Jesus’s youth is shrouded in mystery. Another is, what did Jesus do between his crucifixion and...
-Man started with one rule in the Garden of Eden: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely...
In the 1990s, I was in Hollywood trying to become a rock star. All the pieces were coming together. My band had radio-ready songs, and we were playing then-hip clubs like The Troubadour and Coconut Teaszer. I was in my mid-twenties, starting to get a little old to...
