I have a confession. Despite over 35 years in the ministry and a lifetime of going to church, I have questions and doubts about God. I’ve seen God do amazing things and transform many lives and yet I still have nagging uncertainties. I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it
What does the Lord require of you but To Do Justice, To Love Kindness and To walk humbly with God Micah 6 I went to a concert at a church not long ago. It was a women’s choir and as you would expect, they sang some really beautiful songs
I went to a conference not long ago. While there, I got some fantastic ideas. I was inspired by the passion of the speakers. I was excited by the sessions I attended. I vowed I would return home and implement what I learned in a way that would revolutionize
Here’s an understatement.; religion has a checkered past. All religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to name a few, have chapters they’d rather forget, followers they’d rather not claim. There’s no way around it. Religious history is filled with examples of faith expression gone wrong. I once had a student
My first year out of seminary I worked in a church as an associate pastor. I remember the first time we did a baptism. The senior pastor told me to get some water to use for baptizing the baby that morning. I was a little unsure where to go.
What a strange world it is God has created. God could’ve set up the world any way he wanted and yet he chose to create a world where we have to work to hear, discern and follow his will. Think about that for a moment. Wouldn’t it be a
Nerd alert: I subscribe to Biblical Archaeology Review. I love it. Every month there’s new information about what’s been dug up and how we can learn from it. In this month’s edition there were a number of articles that dealt with death; more specifically with the afterlife. Some of
I joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program when I was in college. I had a little brother for the final 2 years of my time there. When I was leaving, I gave my “little” (as they call them) a few gifts- one of which was a Bible. I decided to
When our 4 kids were little, they would get up from the dinner table and head to a room we called the toy room. It was in the toy room that they played games with one another, but it was also the place where they wrestled, fought and generally
You may not have heard of a guy named Pete Best. If not, there's a good reason for that. He was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. Best was kicked out of the Beatles right before they achieved worldwide fame with their new drummer, the one
