Researchers say the attention span of humans in the 1950s was 30 seconds or more. By 2000 it had plummeted to 12 seconds on its way to 8 seconds in 2015 before settling at 4.5 seconds today. It won’t be long before we stop measuring the world’s attention span because there will be nothing to measure. We’ll stop counting and say our attention is the “BLINK OF AN EYE.”    But hold on…    I...

Reducing risk is prudent. You know–seatbelts, insurance, and locked doors. But 100% risk-free living is a MYTH. Our next breath is possible…but that’s it. Our life rests in the hands of God. The Bible says we will be never be safe from peril (Acts 14:22; 2 Timothy 3:12). But that reality does not stop most Christians from avoiding risk.    RISK AVOIDANCE may be free, but it will eventually...

We have all heard the idiom: “YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.” And of course it makes sense. A person’s worth and character cannot be determined by outward appearances. But Christians and unbelievers alike still have trouble following God’s example instead of judging people by their cover. “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look...

If you’re looking for bad news these days, you don’t have to look. It will come to you on every one of the screens that sling negative news and incendiary images into our mind’s newsfeed. Most of us would agree that the news today is depressing with its messages of divorce, drugs, disconnection, divisiveness, and discord. And, oh yeah, there’s disease and COVID-19.    It is against that...

This just in from our global tribe of over 700,000+ online followers: “I want to get the bad thoughts and motives out of my mind, but I can’t. I feel great after church and then they come back. I wonder if it’s worth fighting those feelings.” Here’s how God has helped me deal with this issue…    Think of a POND and then picture someone on its edge pouring a gallon of poison into the azure...

It’s hot in America right now. Blistering hot from coast to coast. The only good thing coming out of the swelter is connecting it to the action we take, or don’t take, on our faith walk. That story, ironically, starts with rain.    The current heat wave is the kind of weather that can pelt the high desert with much-needed rain to quench its cracked and thirsty moonscape floor.    Here’s...

TRUTH has been under attack since we broke from God in the Garden. But we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Christians everywhere on planet earth need to brace themselves for an ASSAULT ON TRUTH the likes of which the digitized, modern world has not yet seen. Today’s mind-numbing volume of information coursing through the world’s bloodstream allows people to find a version of truth that meets their GODLESS...

It is impossible to count the massive number of Christian messages built around the “CALM SEAS OF CHRIST” metaphor. And for good reason. It is a powerhouse life preserver for believers swimming against the current of life and battling the tide’s powerful undertow. Consider your trips across life’s calm, glass-like waters that were hijacked by a sudden storm. A storm joined by its thunder and lightning...

Would it surprise you to learn that a bloke named William Ockham of Surry England figured out in the 13th Century why Christians in the 21st Century would have trouble activating their faith? It’s true. Ockham developed a theory that would endure millennia.    Though the theory’s name has morphed through the years, it stands sturdy and strong today as OCCAM’S RAZOR: When you have two COMPETING...

We are living in a POST-CIVIL era. A time of tension and turmoil.  A time which defaults to conflict and confusion. A time where civility is gasping for air to stay alive. It is against that backdrop that we are watching the world grow more CYNICAL every day. Men and women. Old and young. Christians and non-believers.    cyn·i·cism:  an inclination to believe that people are motivated...