Here is where I will probably get into some trouble. Not that I have a problem with what I am about to say, but I know some folks will find it offensive, ot...

There’s something about our hearts. They don’t like submission. They don’t like authority. They rebel against the notion of being under someone else’s rule. ...

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, God’s peace to you. I write both to encourage you and to inform you as we stand in these unprecedented times. While c...

Vladimir Putin just had his terms of service as President reset to zero by the Russian government, effectively allowing him to serve two more terms (he’s on ...

Today marks the beginning of Lent in the Western Christian churches. Forty days (not counting Sundays) leading up to Easter. Forty days of renewing our com...

We went axe throwing last night. Yes, it’s a thing. Somehow, someone thought it a great idea to mix alcohol and folks throwing battle axes around. Go figu...

In the last post, Joseph, the favorite son of Jacob, had been sold by his brothers to Midianite traders. The jealous siblings dipped his many-colored robe i...

It can’t be helped, I suppose. Families incubate and perpetuate their brokenness. Until we are finally and fully healed, we will hurt each other – and ofte...

For the last few years I have been in the habit of reading through the entire Bible each year. It’s January, so I have started again and I am back in the bo...

In the traditional Christmas Day Gospel reading, John 1:1-18, we have those remarkable words about the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was...

This is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard…. (What Child Is This?) Confession on the front end that this is something of a sentimental journey, but perhap...

He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. In spite of corporate worship, times of prayer, fellowship, and even ministry together, many Christians are s...

In my last post, I spoke of the superficialities of our post-modern culture and the breakdown in true community. Of course, the breakdown of relationship st...

We are ghosts in the machine. We inhabit a soft reality. Call it the way of the world in the wake of modernism – or Post-modernism. It’s the way we connect...

Why was it supposedly necessary for Jesus to die on the cross for the sins of mankind? Couldn't God just let us pay for our own moral f

Movies go better with popcorn for some folks. Apparently. Why else do they sell the stuff at every movie theater? But he found movies unpredictable and th...

Lectionaries have their strengths and weaknesses. On the plus side, they make you read parts of Scripture you might not ever read or preach in church. On t...

I wonder how many lovers have come to the point of breakup in their relationship, only to find a rising emotional heartbreak within them that might accompany...

A recent staff retreat forced (I am using that word a bit loosely obviously) us to spend some time walking the beach. We were supposed to be thinking about ...

Up front, I will simply state that I believe in the whole metanarrative bit – the overarching story that explains our past and present, that anticipates our ...