Lent exists because we are forgetful creatures. We forget how hungry we really are.
03/26/26
The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
03/25/26
God is not a tool in our hands. He does not exist to serve our goals, our metrics, or our platforms.
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01/23/16
As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.
01/21/16
So what's the back side? What's the promise? We shall not have other gods, but we do have the one, true God—the promise of a God for us.
01/20/16
There are so many reasons why the Good News is such good news; but, for me, one near the top of the list is the relief of being able to tell the truth. It is so refreshing to be given permission to ‘call a spade a spade.
01/11/16
These words sum up the whole person and work of our Messiah. Here is the Gospel in Hebrew.
01/06/16
A star appears in the East. A spotlight over its Creator. A single constellation bows over that Light of Light from whom darkness flees.
01/05/16
The manna God provides is never tasty enough. God never lives up to your expectations. So silently or audibly you wish for an easier way.
01/05/16
Ah, the New Year. It’s the stuff of resolutions. To be better. Do better. Live more healthful. And yet, year after year, we never quite change as much as we hope. Entropy is still a scientific fact.
12/30/15
There are so many paradoxes that we can appreciate as we seek to grasp more of the meaning of the miracle of Christmas.
12/28/15
Isn’t it strange how the Jesus we end up with bears such a striking resemblance to ourselves? Our Jesus thinks as we do, acts as we act, speaks as we speak.
12/18/15
The mother of this prophet is visited by the Mother of God. In the coming together of these two pregnant women, we see the coming together of the old and the new.
12/04/15
As I remember these stories of the other side of Christmas—where it’s not a wonderful life, where there’s no joy to the world, where silent nights are interrupted by screams and sobs and cursing and gunshots—I remember that this other side of Christmas is precisely why there is a Christmas in the first place.
12/02/15
He loved me, to be sure, but in a very nondescript, emotionally detached way, which is the way my grandfather loved him.
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