If you’re a parent, I get it.  You’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and in dire need of a masseuse.  You’ve found yourself repeating those same tired, parental phrases that you swore you would never say–”Don’t make me come up there!” “Were you raised in a barn!?” “If your friends jumped off a bridge…”–and you’re at the end of your...

“Our lives begin to end the day we go silent about the things that matter.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If you’ve been keeping up with politics the last few days, you’ve seen Kelly Clarkson, heard from Beyone, and been taken back in time by James Taylor.  Oh, and the President was sworn in as well. But what you missed was Louie Giglio...

Surfers often refer to sharks as “the men in the grey suits.”  You see, surfers don’t want to cause panic among their buddies who are floating unaware and exposed in open waters, so they’ve come up with this coy expression.  It’s designed to downplay the fact that a deadly flesh-eating creature is swimming only a few feet away from your board. ...

The Church has so little influence over culture because culture has so much influence over the Church. We structure our ministries after the most well-run companies, and we teach our pastors from the best good-to-great leadership books. We have solid video, because we’ve watched and duplicated what works in Hollywood and often regurgitate the most powerful...