top of page
Mar 18, 2020
Facing Threats w/ Faith, Hope, and Love
In a time of great uncertainty and fear, I am as tempted to anxiety and even panic as anyone else. Perhaps I should instead take...
Mar 15, 2020
Abraham: Idol Shop = Bull: China Shop
An ancient Midrash legend tells of Abraham in his early life, living in Ur of the Chaldees in Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers"...
Nov 24, 2019
Humility (aka Knowing One's Place)
Jesus tells Satan in rebuke, “It is written,‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’”...
Nov 20, 2019
Mercy is True Power
It is all too easy to stick to the attitude that might is right. In contrast, mercy usually seems like weakness, a foolish abandonment of...
Jun 17, 2019
Packing Your Coffin
Recently I heard about a rather fascinating tradition among some of the great missionaries, albeit morbidly bizarre to our confused...
Jun 13, 2018
The Moral Life
I will never forget my first parent-teacher conference shortly after beginning my job as a high school theology teacher. I had a student...
Feb 9, 2018
The Two Caves
There once was a man who claimed to be more than just a man. Everywhere he journeyed the crowds flocked to him, even if only to catch a...
Nov 4, 2017
Beyond My Horizons
The whole vast expanse of the cosmos lies before me, around me, even right in the midst of my beating heart if I will but awaken. Far too...
Oct 22, 2017
"To The Heights!"
I found this picture recently and it got me thinking. Saint Paul famously wrote in his first letter to the Christian community of...
Jul 13, 2017
God Wants You!
"God seeks you rather than your gift. Christ seeks the one whom he has redeemed by his blood rather than what you have found in your...
Jun 6, 2017
Faith, Hope, & Love
"And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13 Faith. Hope. Love. We hear...
bottom of page