I’ve noticed that my friends from outside the church usually only bring up God with me in times of crisis. They look at me oddly when I talk about death as a positive thing, and about actually yearning for heaven.       From their curious stares, you’d think I’d just said I believed in Middle Earth and would…

It’s ok that we don’t agree. In spite of the culture trying to polarize us into opposite camps, it is possible to disagree and still be friends.  Notice I didn’t say it’s easy. Just possible. And all that depends on three little dots (…) Have you noticed those three dots blinking when someone is texting…

Tonight I’m icing my knee. It’s the end of the day and my body has several smaller injuries - a jammed thumb, a sore shoulder. But the knee is getting the attention first. That’s where our foster child, a seven-year old boy with an amazing amount of strength and anger, kicked me as hard as…

So how do you kill 6 million innocent people and still sleep at night? Easy. You do it the same way “civilized people” rationalized the enslavement of millions of Africans just a couple of centuries ago. You arbitrarily decide the people you want to destroy are somehow  not.  quite.  human. That’s right. The same logical…

As we all watched the news of Notre Dame Cathedral burning on April 15, 2019, many saw it as a symbol of the demise of Christianity in our modern culture.  A new roster of moral values have crowded Christian virtues to the periphery. Worshipping creation has replaced worshipping the Creator. People have elevated the worth…