Redemption is a word almost no one who isn’t a Christian uses anymore. When I was a kid to encourage customers to buy at their store merchants offered Green Stamps. For every dollar you spent they’d give you an actual green stamp. My mother would save them up in a drawer until we had a lot of them then we licked them and glued in a little book with a dozen pages. When we had enough books she would drive to the Green Stamp Store and she would “redeem them” to “buy” merchandis

A month ago I was meeting with the leader of a ministry which was new to me. They have been in existence for nearly a decade but I really didn’t know much about them but I agreed to take a meeting to find out more. I’ve been asked for many years how Susan and I decide which ministries we should financially support and those we don’t. There’s no science or formula I’ve ever read that Christians can apply to know for certain. However, here are a few important questions I try t

"I'm thinking of doing something different vocationally. I've been in a job that's been OK, but I'm bored and there's not much room for advancement. But, I just don't know what the will of God is for my next job. I just don't want to make the wrong move." I'll bet you, yourself have sought an answer from God for any number of issues from what college to attend, who to marry, whether to serve in ministry – the list is probably endless. Here's what we really want to know: Is it

I was sitting at Starbucks a year and a half ago on a fine fall day with a young man about to graduate from college in the spring. He and I had met a number of times before when he was going through a crisis of faith over the death of a friend, but today he had a completely different dilemma. "I want to know what God's will is for my life. Is there any way I can know that with certainty?" "Yes, there is," I said. But, what I was about to tell him, wasn't what he wanted to hea