The Problem with Good Intentions

I read recently that there are 46 million people who own gym memberships in the United States, yet less than 20% of them actually go to the gym.  They buy the shoes, the spandex shorts and sweat pants, the work out towel and water bottle.  They carry their gym card...

Trust the Soup

Not long ago, a friend of mine asked me if I had a favorite parable of Jesus.  “Of all the parables that Jesus told, which one seems to speak to you the most?”  There are, as you know, a handful of very popular parables that, even for non-Christians, bear universal...