by Michael Hagan ∞ with Monica Kemp When I was a teenager, our pastor led our youth group in reading and discussing a book by that title. Everyone at some point in their life has been tempted by a false god: success, wealth, popularity, or power. Many dedicate their lives to one or more. It’s easy to be seduced into worshiping the idols of business, politics, or pop culture. Some of them even have their own TV shows, podcasts, TikTok or YouTube sites, attracting millions of followers....

Seedlings by Michael Hagan and Monica Kemp Like Hansel and Gretel, we’re trying to find our way home. Unlike them, we aren’t kids lost in the local woods. Instead, we sometimes feel smaller than needles lost in an infinite haystack. Not merely days, our own journey home will consume billions of years and trillions of miles. We aren’t traveling alone. After our first moral decision around age six, each of us was given a priceless celestial compass. This Spirit Pilot, from and of God, invites...