No Guesswork
In one of the Peanuts comic strips, Peppermint Patty came to grips with a shocking truth. She was turning to Marsha for a few answers in school. Marsha exhorted Patty to stop asking her for answers. She exclaimed, “I don’t […]
I Am Not
According to spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, Jesus taught that the key to planetary transformation is for people to awaken to their identity as “Being.” In his book A New Earth, Tolle writes, “Jesus speaks of the innermost I am, the […]
Bumping Into Jesus
When Jesus performed miracles, what was He truly trying to reveal to us. Take, for example, two people who bumped into Jesus. Jairus (on behalf of his daughter) and a very sickly woman both “bumped” into Jesus interweaving their miracle […]
Establishing A Strong Family
What nation has the weakest families? A few years ago I ran into some research that gave me the answer to my question. “The State of Our Unions “, an annual report put out by the National Marriage Project at […]
Man Of Character
Anyone who has ever built a house knows how frustrating it can be when sub-contractors fail to keep their word. The entire process is held up because someone does not perform when they promised to perform. What if God had […]
Slow Food
In 1989, Carlo Petrini started a movement known as “Slow Food”. The movement exists to counter the world’s ever-increasing dependence upon fast food. These preservative-laden, mass-produced meals are neither good for us, nor for our environment, argue Petrini and his […]
Who Can Sing at a Time Like This?
Psalm 137:1-4 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 There on the poplars we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one […]
Building Bridges
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in their 40 years of working together. It began with a small misunderstanding and grew into a major difference. Eventually, […]
What’s Your Metaphor?
Prov. 30:5 “…[God] is a shield to those who take refuge in him. I love the fact that God used the metaphor of a refuge to explain what life is like when you place your presence in the heart of God—instead […]
Certainty
Some time ago, I posted something about God on Facebook. Within a few minutes a young pastor replied with a rather harsh rejection of my ideas. He was quite dismissive of my supposed wisdom and proceeded to tell me just […]
