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Journey Prayers [4]
Holy God, the troubles of our hearts loom large, and our distress is often deep. Turn graciously to us in our affliction and loneliness, forgiving all our many sins and guarding our souls in the refuge...
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Like a Virus
David’s loss of his son Absalom is very tragic on a number of levels. If we remember, though, it was the finishing of a story which started when David and Bathsheba got sexually involved (see 2 Samuel...
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I Am Sending My Questioner
Christmas probably seems a little crazy these days. We feel the struggle between the truth we know in Jesus – the ‘reason for the season’ – and the facts of a consumer oriented season. There is the...
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Bigfoot Lives!
I have always been fascinated with Bigfoot. The Yeren, the Yeti, the Sasquatch – all over the world they have different names for Bigfoot. I love to watch shows about Bigfoot, even ones I’ve seen. When...
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Big Ticket Sin
As we were leaving church one morning, my wife mentioned something in passing about King David as a “big ticket sinner.” The comment started me thinking about how we talk about sin and sinning in our...
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Living on the Front Lines
Several years ago, my wife Clélie worked with her youth group to make care packages for soldiers. She gathered the information about a particular unit – their wants and needs, what could and could not...
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Living on the Front Lines, Part 2
“Sometime ago there was a wonderful teacher who celebrated her eightieth birthday. It proved to be a marvelous occasion, highlighted by the presence of a great number of her former students....
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Living on the Front Lines, Part 3
I once read a story about an older man, Bud, and his wife, Millie, who lived out in a rural area, and they didn’t make it into town very often. One day his wife obtained a copy of a ladies’ magazine...
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Living on the Front Lines, Part 4
Pastor King Duncan relates a silly and sort of scandalous incident with an early church father: “When the father of Origen, a third century theologian, was arrested for being a Christian, Origen, then...
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The Ten Minute Mulligan
It’s Ash Wednesday, and today, we enter into a period of preparing, reflecting, and sacrificing known as Lent. Typically, folks try to fast from something, e.g. meat, sodas, chocolate, TV, or even...
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