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Hereafter

I sat at the bedside of a dying woman this week. She was confined to bed, and had oxygen running through a line to her nose. After a few pleasantries, I asked her what she wanted to talk about. Since she new she was dying, I wondered what might be utmost in her mind. Mostly, she wanted…

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A Covering of Snow

The gales of wind howled through the trees outside the old cabin. Smoke rose from the chimney as the old man ate his humble soup safely inside. His weathered hands were still steady, having stacked the wood by the cabin walls that would surely last the winter’s full duration. It’s a good thing he had.…

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(Do) STOP BELIEVIN’

One of the funniest critiques I hear lobbed against Christians is that we "believe in fairy tales". "You Christians think your daddy in the sky created humans - how quaint and childish!" "Ok then," I respond, "where do you think we came from?" "Well, of course space aliens from another planet colonized earth. What other logical…

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Say “Yes”

My 26th wedding anniversary is today (Nov 19, 2014), and I can still remember how awkwardly the proposal played out. I was a youth pastor with a group of 80 teenagers on a mission trip to New Orleans. My intended fiancé grew up in the suburbs there, so I thought it would be perfect to propose…

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