Larry Magnuson

Being and doing what God asks of us is simple, although maybe not easy in a rushed and hurried world.

Humility, humbleness...self-deprecation...Do you have a harder time extending grace to yourself than you do others?

Blame, hurt, anger and bitterness fill the room as the husband and wife sit on opposite ends of a loveseat, about as far away as is possible. Without looking at each other, each tells one side of the story.

"Our task is to find and execute God's plans, whether for ourselves personally or for the ministry in which we serve."

Right now throughout the Rocky Mountain West, entire mountainsides are covered with dead pine trees. Land that used to be green, alive and beautiful is now brown, dead and ugly. The cause: the rocky mountain pine beetle. It is not just the beetle that is at the heart of the devastation; it is the weakened...

“Developing character and integrity takes time and energy. More than anything else, it takes time with Jesus, time in His Word, time listening.”

The church does not know how to deal with sin. It does not know how to deal with victims of sin, bystanders affected by the sin or the perpetrators of the sin. Too often the church simply wants the sin, pain and problems to go away so we can get back to our "Christian activities" and what I have come...