People who are fervently committed to a cause can be difficult to be around. They won’t bend or compromise. At your family table this Christmas there will probably be one or two who will take the conversation in a direction… Continue reading

A young girl in elementary school, bright and beautiful, went on and on about all the drama in her life, all the terrible things she suffered at the hands of others. I don’t doubt, for a moment, that school can… Continue reading

“Nothing good happens after midnight.”  I’m sure my now adult children remember that phrase from their teen years, when I was establishing a curfew.  Requesting that they get home a respectable hour was my attempt to protect them against the… Continue reading

The Christmas season officially started yesterday.  It was the first day of Advent, when Christians remember He came to save the world, He comes to us today to be our Lord, and that He will come again as our King. … Continue reading

“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18, NIV)  This short verse has occupied my thoughts for several weeks, the theme of my November sermons, the challenge of my personal… Continue reading

Yesterday I went to see “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood,” a story from the life of Fred Rogers.  What a movie, an emotional roller coaster, to be sure.  Some tried to dub him, “A living saint” given his gentle… Continue reading

So much information bombards us it is next to impossible to sort out truth from lies, what is worthy of our trust from what we should just discard. There is a torrent of advice about how to live. We are… Continue reading

For whom are you dancing today? Well, perhaps you are not actually dancing, but who are you trying to please? We all have some level of need for appreciation, wanting to be liked. If we make that kind of approval… Continue reading

I want one thing to be obvious about me, above anything else – that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.  I have no desire to be like “Captain Obvious” that obnoxious character that markets for hotels.com. The gag that… Continue reading

About 50 years ago, when many other colas were entering the soft drink market, Coca Cola™ advertised with this slogan, “It’s the Real Thing.” Coke’s brand manager said that the company was responding to “research which shows that young people… Continue reading