Having spent last week in at a conference in San Diego, I was struck by how cool it was to come to my room each afternoon and find that...

Good Sabbath...in the forest I pack the car early this morning, coughing after a fitful night’s sleep as the virus creates a dripping in...

I carry my metal water bottle with me everywhere, and the conference center at which I’m staying is offering Nestle’s bottled water in...

I turn on the radio and start fiddling with the AM little realizing what’s about to happen.  “Good afternoon!” says the familiar voice....

It would be easy, for many of us, to just write a check on May 23rd, 50 days after Easter, and call it a success.  But success, in this...

we're all marching to our own drummers There’s a delightful little passage that I came across yesterday morning during my coffee with...

I’m getting ready to study the passage for this coming Sunday about the ten virgins, five of whom had oil in their lamps and five who...

We've Made Jesus in Our Image: Cool As we move into the thick of Holy Week, my morning reading today included this from Judas:  “what...

This past Sunday I spoke on servant leadership and how vital the principle is for our time.  I’d spent the few days before preaching...

In spite of all this, it was only today that I was really struck by the fact this guy wasn’t very careful about where he put his seeds....

Glenn Beck, the celebrated conservative commentator had some things to say over the past week or so about “social justice” and “economic...

All of this, though, is predicated on us becoming increasingly secure in our identity, “in Christ.”  You can’t live “newness” wearing the...

David Brooks wrote a NY Times column last month in which he posited that the current economic crisis has been much harder on men then...

It’s not just these reminders though, that I encounter in Fresno.  My mom’s 90 and the trip from her room to the car takes about 20...

1. No party or system has all the answers.  I’m well beyond suspicious that our systems won’t save us:  I know our systems won’t save us,...

If you’re one of those “it’s all going to burn up anyway” Christians,  there’s a good chance you’ll be eating a big slab of meat tonight,...

I’ll open this category with two things: 1. Resource – for a quick overview of what a rule of life is, and it’s significance, I’ll refer...

This past Sunday I preached on ‘glorying in our tribulations’.  Starting on Monday, it’s been lab work on the same subject.  The...

Unfortunately, it’s not.  Have you seen the movies from the Youth Rallies during the reign of the Reich?  The singing and enthusiasm...

BBC report discloses that the French government has refused to grant citizenship to man because he is forcing his wife to wear the ‘full...