Do we ever find ourselves becoming angry, sarcastic, or hostile when someone disagrees with our understanding of morality, the Bible, or the afterlife? If so, how do we explain our rush of emotion? Do we intuitively sense that anger will enable us to make a better case for our beliefs? Has our experience taught us […]
The grave of a soldier who died in the service of his country is marked today with renewed expressions of family and friends whose hearts remain broken by their loss. In the silence, I’m reminded of the value of a person. The cumulative assets of the whole world could not equal the life of that […]
Paul says love does not envy. The New Living Translation says, “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud.” (1Cor 13:4) Yet Moses said to Israel, “You shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God, lest you make a covenant with the […]
Paul prayed for it. He longed for the faith and actions of his readers to be rooted and grounded in it. He wrote as if it is an immeasurable ocean with which God wants to fill us– in the face of all that we fear and hate (Eph 3:14-21). He saw Christ as its source […]
Jesus said that love for God is the first and greatest commandment, and that the second most important is to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31). Moses anticipates such faithfulness to God when he says, as a matter of first importance, that Israel was to have no other god but the One who rescued […]
On my flight back to the States I read a book that I’d heard talked about by some of my co-workers. It’s called Leadership and Self-Deception and takes a thoughtful look the way our inclination to ignore the needs of others results in the kind of self justification and self-deception that ruins whole organizations, families, […]
Have been meeting with international co-workers to update our efforts and to think through ways of using our wider perspectives to help one another increase reach and impact in each of our regions. Together we have once again found it so stretching and renewing to be able to consider the challenges and opportunities that stretch […]
Am on the road for a while. Not sure when or how often I’m going to be able to post over the next week. But do want you to meet some friends I’ve met along the way. In the mean time please use this site to stay in touch with one another… Don’t try to […]
In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians he writes out an extended prayer that expresses his longing that his readers will be given by God the ability to understand something of the immeasurable height, depth, and breadth of how much God loves them. Do you think this prayer has anything to do not only […]
Justice in the Bible is often linked to God’s concern for those who have been hurt by people like Bin Laden and us. For most of that reason we are rightfully thankful when dangerous people are apprehended. We are reassured by the thought that the offenders of our children will have their day in Court. […]
