Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Here’s a strange truth I’ve noticed. Almost everyone knows about Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, but most people don’t go. Maybe it’s because it’s surrounded by water and you have to take a raft to get there. But it’s really not that tough to do. Lots of people want to go. Some people even plan to go. But most forget or just don’t get around to it

I was with my daughter, Lindsey, at the airport recently. We were talking about whether or not God had a plan for our lives like lots of people talk about. So I sent a text message to one of Lindsey’s friends. “Hi, I’m sitting here with Lindsey” the text message started. (I didn’t want to creep her out.) “I want to know what your plan for my life i

He had the look of both Superman and a gut-shot pheasant at the same time. Adam landed 120 feet later surrounded by the scrap metal remains of what he was riding. His first words when I rushed over to him were “That was awesome.” And you know what? It was. Even though things didn’t go as planned and Adam crashed and burned, there was a huge sense o

I do know one thing that works every time—it’s having somebody else say something good about you. I think that’s how we were created, you know, to get named by people this way.

We weren’t thinking at that time about where the chain reaction would stop, and we’re still not thinking about it. I’d like to think it’s because we didn’t have a plan. We had a big idea instead. You see, the problem with my plans is that they usually work. And if they don’t seem to be working, I force them to work and I get the small results I aim

I need to operate on my best guess. I need to listen to that internal tuning fork. Some folks might cringe to think that much of what we do is a best guess about God’s desires or aims. But I’m just being honest. Why fake it? I take the fixed points of His

I trust God because He’s the best author. I think God doesn’t spell out everything for us in life, but He does tell us how we can write our lives better; and trusting Him implicitly is always the right place to start.

When you read the Bible, the people who loved Jesus and followed Him were the ones like me who don’t get invited places. Yet Jesus told His friends they were invited anyway. In fact, He told them that the religious people weren’t the ones who decided who got into heaven and who didn’t. He said the people who followed Him should think of themselves

Faith isn’t an equation or a formula or a business deal that gets you what you want. In short, there’s nothing on the other side of the equals sign, just Jesus.