On Tuesday, July 28, at roughly 2:45 in the afternoon, a judge said a few words that changed my life forever. The little girl my wife, Jen, and I had been raising for six months — since the day she was born — legally became our daughter. That sentence may read a little plain on […]

Let me tell you about the greatest basketball game ever played. June 19, 2016. Game 7. Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Golden State Warriors, who had just won 73 games in the regular season — the most in NBA history — and were playing in their second consecutive Finals. The Warriors had built a 3-1 series […]

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the […]

Here’s something curious about the book of Acts: it doesn’t have an ending. At least not in the traditional sense. Not a cliffhanger, exactly. It just stops. Paul is in Rome, preaching in a rented house, waiting on a trial whose outcome Luke never records. And then the book is over. No resolution. Nothing that […]