Paul was a young lieutenant in the US Army, leading a platoon in Vietnam in 1967, when he met Jesus during an intense battle at the Lang Vei Special Forces Camp. As men died all around him he thought death… Continue reading

It’s the season of moving up, promotion, and graduation. From preschool through university, the end of an era for students is marked with pomp and ceremony, as is fitting!  One young friend, who is graduating from high school wondered about… Continue reading

We all have memories of finding ourselves among people with the clear sense that we did not belong.  Maybe it was a day in high school when you realized you were not ‘in,’ excluded. I was never an athlete and… Continue reading

“When did you know you were going to be a pastor?” I am asked that question often. I felt God’s call as a teen,  in a Sunday evening service in a little church, when Spirit extended His invitation to serve.… Continue reading

When I went into that hospital room, the atmosphere was dark. The woman in the bed is very old, her health frail, the future, as we see it, uncertain. “God has abandoned me,” she said, the fear in her voice… Continue reading

Have you ever watched a marathon at the finish line? The leaders arrive head high, often arms raised, still running… then come those who are limping, exhausted, faces drawn in pain. It is beyond my comprehension why they subject themselves… Continue reading

When I opened an account, the financial company asked me – “What is your risk tolerance?”  Risk is part of having money in any investment. The economy changes, markets move up and down. Risk can be managed, however, by the… Continue reading

The text of the 2nd chapter of Ephesians is  … well, what word should I use? Amazing? Wonderful? Revealing? Encouraging?  I could use those and more. Some people fail to take the passage as seriously as we must. As a… Continue reading

Drama queen.  Control freak. Snowflake.  Progressive, conservative, liberal, Millennial, Boomer, Republican, Democrat, Evangelical … We do to love to paste labels on each other, don’t we? Labels give us an easy way to group people, a short cut for the… Continue reading

Do you believe that God could not possibly love you because you have done some terrible thing, because of who you have become? Or, perhaps you wonder how a good God can ‘send people to Hell’? Both thoughts miss the… Continue reading