God’s Intentional Tensions – Who Chose Who?
One day Jesus told a parable which likened the Kingdom of God to a wedding feast. This parable of Jesus is found in Matthew 22:1-14 and contains our next intentional…
Category: 2015
God’s Intentional Tensions – Free Will
Who is really in charge? Who is responsible for my actions or the actions of others or the whims of nature? The second of God’s intentional tensions is the pull…
God’s Intentional Tensions – Already, and Not Yet
My musical instrument of choice is guitar. Although I love the sound of a well over-driven Stratocaster or Les Paul, I choose to play a plain-old Martin acoustic. There’s just…
You Are What You Eat
Hang around with folks long enough and you’ll discover where they live. Now I don’t mean what country, state, city, or neighborhood they live in, that’s easy. But where…
Lets Defy Gravity
There is a child’s toy that seems to defy gravity. The toy is shaped like a bird and anyone can balance it with just a finger under its beak. It…
Even Google Has Its Limits
We live in a marvelous age. My laptop weighs about the same as a textbook yet contains a library of over a thousand books. And that’s just what is in…
The Closed Door
There are many different kinds of stories in the Bible. Stories of faith, stories of great miracles, stories of redemption, and stories of courage to name a few. Sprinkled…
A Piece on Peace
My daughter Rebekah, a six-grade English teacher, would remind us that what we are about to talk about is a homophone. A homophone is two words that sound the same…
Follow!
This time of year, when the weather turns crisp and the leaves reveal their true colors, I think of hiking. For many years my family traveled to a few different…
Untouchable
It would have started with a spot. A small blemish on his arm, leg, torso, or face. We wouldn’t think much about it today, just a dry patch of skin.…
An “Iffy” Proposition
Why is it that some of the most powerful words in the English language are also the shortest ones? Consider the weight of consequence carried on the minuscule frame…
The Believer’s New Clothes
Hans Christian Anderson once published a story called The Emperor’s New Clothes. Most of us are well familiar with the tale. A proud king is convinced to hire a pair…