It was a warm, sunny Saturday morning in early December— the kind of day you’re not going to get very often. We were taking full advantage of it by doing some things out in our back yard when I saw a hawk fly in and perch in one of our pine trees. Over the years we’ve livedContinue reading “‘Seeker’ Is Our Status”
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More Like Jesus
Devon Still and Lauren Hill met today. They’re both athletes—he is on the practice squad of the Cincinnati Bengals and she plays basketball for Mt. Saint Joseph University, also in Cincinnati. Okay, actually Lauren hopes to play for the Lady Lions. She’s a freshman and their basketball season hasn’t started yet. It’s not so muchContinue reading “More Like Jesus”
Making All Things New
The weather where we live has been pretty dreary the last couple of weeks. It’s rained almost every day but more than that, it’s been overcast with very little sunshine. I’m not normally a person who pays much attention to this kind of thing but it’s been a little hard not to notice. A portionContinue reading “Making All Things New”
Lotteries and Lousy Lords
There was a big celebration going on among the workers at a restaurant in New Jersey. Okay, make that a HUGE celebration. Forty-two employees had pooled their money together to purchase $210 worth of tickets in the Powerball lottery that had a jackpot of nearly $1 billion. A friend texted the winning numbers and theyContinue reading “Lotteries and Lousy Lords”
Loaves and Fishes
We rightfully pay significant attention to what the biblical text says, but I wonder if there aren’t times when what is not said isn’t equally compelling (and perhaps intended by the writer to be that way). After all, there are times when what someone doesn’t say can be as important as what they do say.Continue reading “Loaves and Fishes”
Living With Open Hands
Christmas is going to be different for us this year—radically different. In the past year we lost Janice’s father and her mother is now in the memory care unit of a residential facility (she suffers from severe dementia). My mother also passed away. All of this means we won’t be making the trip to the Hendrixson’sContinue reading “Living With Open Hands”
Listening to God
How do you think God would do in a political debate? One take is that He would be awesome and dominating. Every time He would speak there would be thunder and lightning and no one would care what anyone else had to say. I have to admit, I can see that scenario playing out. ButContinue reading “Listening to God”
Jesus and Dead End Streets
So what do we gain from studying Ecclesiastes (a wisdom book which like Job, contains the good, bad and the ugly before things are reconciled at the end)? Maybe the place to start is to say that Ecclesiastes makes us think. Qoheleth (koh hel’ ith in the Hebrew and translated as “Teacher” or “Preacher”) doesContinue reading “Jesus and Dead End Streets”
It Always Works That Way
I have an article in front of me from Merriam-Webster.com on “How ‘Wonderful’ Lost Its Sense of Wonder.” It discusses semantic bleaching—the process by which a word’s meaning can fade over time so that what we end up with in its popular usage is a greatly reduced version of what it originally conveyed. Words likeContinue reading “It Always Works That Way”
Grace, Faith and Transformation
God is in the transformation business—He’s always changing things. He changes caterpillars into butterflies. He changes the seasons. He changes CO2 into food for trees and oxygen for people. He changes the food we eat into energy and replenishment for our cells. And while it’s true that God does these things through the natural world HeContinue reading “Grace, Faith and Transformation”
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