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FOUNDATIONS
I hear some voices today telling us they cannot promise an end to our current predicament. That if we let down our guard it will return in the Fall and we will be right back in lock-down. they seem to want us to stay in our homes all summer and Velcro ourselves to the […]
THE GIFT
This is not the end of the world. There is only one of those, this is not it. This is not a judgement from God. This is just life and death in a fallen world. It is akin to a natural disaster, like an invisible tsunami. Something God will use in many ways; to challenge […]
COVID 19 AND THE LAST ENEMY
We are all hiding in our homes from an invisible global enemy. I am not referring to the latest pandemic; I am talking about “he who must not be named”. Covid 19 is just his vehicle, his latest chariot. I am referring to death itself. Saint Paul calls death “the last enemy”. Death is […]
GROUNDHOG DAY
Channel surfing the other day I stumbled across the beginning of “Groundhog Day”, the classic 1993 film starring Bill Murray. It’s on the list of near-perfect movies, (A Christmas Story, The Matrix, Gladiator, The Hunt for Red October, The Kid, The Godfather, Etc.). “Groundhog Day” connects with me at every level, creatively, philosophically, theologically. […]
WHAT IS GOD?
God is not a man, that He should ever lie. Nor is God a creature, that He should ever die. God is not a vessel, that needs to be filled. Nor is He a monster, that needs to be killed. God is not a resource, that needs to be exploited. Nor an office seeker, trying […]
LINCOLN
I went to DC last week with some of my kids. At the end of a day visiting some of our wonderful free museums, we stopped and visited this man. There are no politicians in history who should have an entire speech of theirs carved into stone; this man has two of them, one […]
WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?
I know that many of you do not believe what I believe. That is understandable, because I am convinced that a thirty-year-old Jewish construction worker is responsible for the universe, that’s weird. But if we think that is a hard sell today, it would have been harder in the first century. We tend to […]
THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT
Pennsylvania, please put down your drugs. They are not working. They are killing you. I am not speaking as the proverbial old man complaining about “kids these days”. I did my share of drugs when I was younger. Although, in a lower middle-class neighborhood in the mid-1970s it was mostly pot and cheap whisky […]
BEAUTY AND BARBED WIRE
The Earth is beautiful. If a visitor from another galaxy were to pass through our solar system, they would be intrigued by the gas giant Jupiter; they would explore the baffling rings around Saturn. But their eyes would, inevitably, be drawn to this beautiful blue and white marble that is drifting alone in a […]