Everybody, Always

rather than just circling the field. Get the plane on the ground. ...

CHAPTER 11 Last One, Best One Jesus often uses our blind spots to reveal Himself to us. I regularly visit Northern Iraq to check ...

by-twelve-foot sandbox with some plastic army men, tanks, roads, and small white and black flags on it. I thought there would be ...

promise God gives us every day. We want God to tell us all the details, but all we usually get is a promise that we’ll see more ...

what Jesus is looking for are honest answers about what’s really going on in our lives, not a bunch of spin. The reason is simpl ...

I have a friend named Lex. He has the same problem in both of his eyes that I have in one of mine. After ten failed operations, ...

stadium gasped. Lex missed the sandpit entirely and crashed and burned on the concrete. Lex’s friend put his hands over his head ...

I’m not trying to be Lex, and he isn’t interested in being me. One thing we do have in common is having a couple of good friends ...

I’ve got a lot to learn from Lex. I have plenty of sight and use very little of it. He has none and somehow sees more than a doz ...

CHAPTER 12 Three Minutes at a Time Friendships can last a lifetime, but we make them three minutes at a time. Hello, Patricia? H ...

two sizes too big for him. His job was to check IDs to see if people were who they said they were. Sometimes people pop out in a ...

The small man looked up slowly from my driver’s license and handed it back to me as if it were his. He didn’t say a word, but I ...

described it, it was as grand as any castle in England—no doubt with a moat, a couple of drawbridges, and horsemen. Yes, lots of ...

A lot of us pretend we’re at a different place in our faith than we really are. We pretend to be someone we’re not, hoping we’ll ...

show people who He is by what we do, not just tell them what we think. I’ve been asking God to help me figure out who I really a ...

move from merely identifying with someone’s pain to standing with them in it, and from having a bunch of opinions to giving away ...

confidence that comes from having found truth in your own life. God never promised we’d have all the answers. What He offers to ...

singing Chris Tomlin songs, but I kind of doubt it. I also don’t know about getting a set of wings either, but I’m crossing my f ...

CHAPTER 13 Karl’s Dive We’re not held back by what we don’t have, but by what we don’t use. Karl was like most other kids in hig ...

school, whom he wanted to both scare and impress, sitting on a dock at the edge of the water. Karl thought it would take somethi ...