SCIENCE AND FAITH
When I first held my newest grand-daughter, Erika, in my arms and looked at her, I asked, “Who are you? Where have you come from? What will your life be like?” Her perfectly formed face, eyes, nose, ears, fingers and toes fascinated me, as did my two daughters’ when...
TURNING EIGHTY
Today I turn eighty! How to make sense of attaining, what I have thought of as old age? I have outlived my father’s age and many of my friends. What will life be like in my eighties? My body has survived knee surgeries, a heart attack and arthritis. Thankfully my mind...
THE TWO WAYS
Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13,14) A characteristic of...
ALONENESS
"The ever-disquieting realization that we just might be alone is the singly most avoided thought studiously escaped whenever possible. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room. When we hear songs about it, read books about it, see movies that haunt us with...
THE GOSPEL FOR TODAY
"Our struggle today, is how to be faithful to this apostolic gospel, while at the same time presenting it in a way which resonates with modern men and women. What is immediately clear, is that, like the apostles, we must focus on Jesus Christ. Peter's beginning...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
“Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart...
DISAGREEING WITH CLOSE FRIENDS
I lost a childhood friend this week. We met in high school at a Christian summer camp, were in the same class at university and after graduate school we met up again in London, where we shared lodgings, worshiped together and continued to correspond when we married...
SLAPPING JESUS
Jesus is arrested, handcuffed and dragged before Annas, the retired high priest who interrogated him about his disciples and his teaching. He replied, “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, publicly. I said nothing in...
COUNTER-CULTURAL
Popularity depends on the group you belong to. What makes you popular in one group may make you unpopular in another. A drunk is not popular in a prayer meeting. A teetotaler is not popular at a fraternity party. Our belief in freedom of speech guarantees our right to...
THE COURAGE OF TRUTH
Jesus said, “You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom. Not only that – count yourself blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies against you to discredit me....
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