Author: Paul Santhouse

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I’m also a husband, father, and grandpa. And I’m part of the Moody Publishers* team. Since I've worked with books for nearly four decades, and I believe the local church is where we become the kind of people Jesus would be in our shoes, that's mostly what this blog is about. Thanks for visiting. Paul *As this is my personal blog, the views and opinions expressed herein are my own, not those of my employer.

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I know a college student who went extreme. After countless lessons on faith in action he left the country. First to South Africa and Mozambique, where he spent his summer playing soccer and sharing Christ. Several young men came to faith during his visit, but after he left (to attend Moody Bible Institute in the […]

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Each new day is brimming with opportunity. Overflowing with it. Awash. To allow one’s self to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, To want to help everyone in everything, Is to succumb to violence. Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of […]

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For one full year I rode a Honda ST1100 to work. All year. Six sweaters in winter and a yellow slicker for rain. One day, friends invited us for dinner. Though it was pouring, I rode there straight from work, dry as a dustball in my bright yellow rain suit. The problem was, these friends […]

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Back in 1999 a friend and I visited Lorne Sanny, long-time president of The Navigators, in his Glen Eyrie office. The conversation was deep, rich, and full of stories. One story recently came to mind. We asked Lorne about spiritual maturity — what it looks like and how it develops. “Sincerity,” he said. “Take the […]

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Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a scrappy little op-ed piece about Iran. The Iranian government is planning to kill five pro-democracy protestors. And they’re bullying a 24-year-old French woman, apparently with France’s blessing, Sarkozy’s tough talk notwithstanding. In its 30 years, the Islamic Republic has used assassination squads, fatwas, terrorism and hostage-taking as tools of […]