April 8, 2015
We’re all tired of it. The senseless killing and violence. Cancer and heart disease. Sin and its slimy tentacles that hold us in its death grip. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that Jesus defeated sin and death when it constantly surrounds us and presses in on us. We can so easily lose sight of the […]
Read More →January 28, 2015
Seventy years ago yesterday, the Soviets liberated the few remaining prisoners in Auschwitz, people who stared evil in the eye and dared to survive. Some 300 of those survivors gathered for a memorial at the death camp. The world vowed to “Never Forget.” And yet we seem to have amnesia. The very nation which freed the […]
Read More →December 18, 2014
Christmas will come next week and we are bombarded with hopelessness. Will our world ever be a safe place? We feel collective anguish for the people of Sydney, Pakistan, and Ferguson. Maybe you, too, are facing the loneliness and despair of Christmas without a loved one present. Hope feels impossible. Elusive. Unattainable. And yet I’m reminded of […]
Read More →November 11, 2014
Ever notice how November has gotten to be crammed full of noteworthy days? Halloween kicks off two months of a frantic pace of activity. Here’s a partial rundown of the last eleven days: November 1 All Saints Day and National Deviled Egg Day November 2 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church November 3 Sandwich […]
Read More →October 23, 2014
“I’m not going to vote,” a young college student proudly announced to me, out of the blue. “We can’t change anybody by changing the laws. So why bother?” I’m no expert on the Millennial generation, but I have read about some of the characteristics that are generally true of people born between the early 1980s […]
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