An assortment of reflections, observations, confessions, and odds & ends ... I like every Imagine Dragons song I hear on the radio. The Resident has become must-see-TV for me and for Julie. I read Timothy Keller's Preaching: Communicating Faith In An Age Of...
A number of years ago, I spent a season working with a particular counselor trying to help figure out the conundrum that is me. (Yes, I've had several such seasons and a few counselors and I am much the healthier for it.) Anyway, during one of our sessions, the...
My mom taught me to read at a very young age -- possibly four, certainly by the time I was five -- and I have been reading ever since. One of the happy consequences of all that reading is that there is no better way to learn to be a writer. Part of mom's lessons...
This weekend's Easter message ... Came from Mark 16:1-8; Hinged on NINE references to Jesus in the space of a verse and a half; Had its origins in my thoughts that many people careen from one life event to another, propelled by nothing more than their newest desire,...
Here's what we got: Today, Friday, March 30 -- Good Friday Good Friday Worship at 7 p.m. in the Moss Road Worship Center. Full color worship with communion plus a reflection on the meaning of the cross and its "remembering." Saturday And Sunday, March 31 & April...
I read Jonah awhile back and noticed a verse tucked away in its opening scene that I had long overlooked. As the storm gathered strength against Jonah's flee-to-Tarshish cruise liner, All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god (1:5). At first...
One thing I have noticed in my frequent watching of the Tennis Channel is a new phrase in on-court commentary: "He is a master at turning defense into offense." In other words, certain players through their combination of foot speed and racket skill can hit an...
By way of review: the bible is not a book. It is a library. Many different authors, multiple writing styles, written over a long span of time. And like any good library, the bible has a biography section. Four biographers (also known collectively as evangelists) --...
On almost every Sunday morning, I meet with two friends who pray with me at 7:45 and declare with confidence, "Hey guys, guess what? It's gonna be great!" Part of that, I'm sure, is talking myself into that same conviction. Yesterday, however, was different. I met...
This looks like an unlikely place for a king's coronation, doesn't it? And yet in the way Mark tells Jesus' story, that hill far away is exactly where Jesus' kingship was unveiled and unleashed. He was made King Of The Hill ... and declared King On The Hill. What does...