As I’ve read the news reports on the President’s meeting with police Sergeant James Crowley and Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates, I’ve been interested in the different responses. The highly charged racial implications around the event that prompted the arrest of Professor Gates, together with the public debate that followed, showed how quickly each of […]
Seems to me that there is a relationship between what we are feeding on and what is eating us. Would like to hear what part of the Scriptures you are feeding on so as to not be eaten up by the consuming issues and concerns of life. Don’t want to minimize our problems. I just […]
Every once in a while I think about a quote I heard from an unknown source: “We see things not only as they are– but as we are.” The thought reminds me of what the Apostle Paul wrote to Titus when he said, “To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are […]
This isn’t going to be about losing pounds. It’s about feeling down, confused, and wondering why prayers keep coming back like undeliverable e-mails, or unopened envelopes marked “return to sender,” … and then finding help from someone who endured similar fears and frustrations– but to a far greater degree. He had made a name for […]
He knew things he wasn’t allowed to talk about. Bound now by a law of silence he lived with the memory of being caught up into what he called “the third heaven” where he says he heard things that a man is not allowed to repeat. Am wondering whether he was allowed to see anything. […]
Surveys show that 43 million households own a dog. Some of those pets are service dogs. Others are used for security or hunting. More than a few have been inherited by parents of college age children who left them behind. But most are kept for companionship. Because of the love many of us have for […]
In The God Delusion, author Richard Dawkins makes a connection between Moses and the Taliban that must have occurred to some of us as well. Who among us has not listened with horror to reports of young women being stoned for adultery or for going out in public without head coverings. Some of us may […]
The wisdom of the Proverbs says, “A man plans his ways but the Lord directs his steps” (Prov 16:9). In a few words, the Bible reflects the mystery of the interrelationship between the freedom of our thoughts and the enabling, limiting, and over-riding will of God. The extent of our freedom is something that is […]
Since the 1920s the High/Low has become a common part of industrial heavy lifting and warehousing. With the convenience comes the risks of working with heavy, potentially falling loads. So, many of the modern forklifts are designed with an overhead guard and also a heavy counterweight behind and below the driver (neither of which is […]
Does it make sense to make promises to one another and to God that we know we can’t keep? Started thinking about this again after reading an article by David Lapp in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Section. Lapp wrote about engaged couples who want to write their own wedding vows, or to have someone […]
Looking back, it seems that life is full of answered and unanswered prayers. It’s clear that, as a wise Father who for our good thinks in ways far beyond our ability, our God has every right and responsibility to say “Yes,” “No,” or “Not Yet.” But how, as we live with unanswered requests, can we […]
On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson and 55 others signed a Declaration of Independence from the King of England. Their resolve began with these words, When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them to another and to assume among the […]
While acknowledging the passing of a number of celebrities this past week, was reminded of the way CS Lewis quietly slipped away just before his 65th birthday on Nov 22, 1963, the same day that JF Kennedy was assassinated. Something similar happened this past week when an important spokesman for unreached people quietly passed from […]
Is grace the fast food of a spiritual diet? Could undeserved kindness be the junk food of slackers? By definition, grace is “the unmerited favor” by which God shows us the kindness we don’t deserve. It is closely related to His mercy by which He withholds the punishment we have earned. The trouble with grace […]
