Tremendous Tracey
The Calf Kissers
Addiction isn't a weakness. It's devotion aimed at the wrong altar. A line from Ty Ngachira sent me back to a strange little phrase in Hosea 13 — "kiss the calves" — where God's people melted their own silver into an idol and bowed to the work of their own hands. Money does that. It doesn't create what's inside us; it reveals and magnifies it. Hand a fortune to a whole person, and it becomes a tool. Hand it to a hollow one, and it becomes a god. From Arthur Guinness to Milton Hershey to a short tax collector in a sycamore tree, here's what righteous wealth looks like when devotion gets redirected.
when you can't be your brother's keeper
My brother Jere was fourteen years older than me, so by the time I was old enough to grasp the concept of siblings he was already out of the house....
The dangers of an empty mind
It's not enough that we purge negative people and things from our lives; we have to put something in their places. Nature abhors a vacuum, so unles...
