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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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

There are several places in the Bible where the choice between life and death is set before people. It’s there in the Garden of Eden...

Touch. We all need it. Some more, some less, but life without it just isn’t life. We all need physical touch, human society,...

It’s an odd practice we have of naming streets after people or historic landmarks. Or naming patches of earth after events that happened...

Okay, it’s not nice to call people old – especially “really old.” I don’t know how old they were, but they were no spring chickens. The...