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Dare to Hope
The text for the first Sunday of Advent is Isaiah 2:1-5. As I work on this text I am always puzzled by the latter part of v. 4. There will be a time when war is studied no more. For traditional dispensationalists it can only come after the Rapture, etc. For other traditions, that time is something still to look…
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Gut Punch
It is unbelievable how this week has unfolded. The news keeps coming and it’s so heart-wrenching. A friend struggling with a wife’s mental illness. The loss of a great woman of God (my wife’s grandmother). The news of cancer striking at a friend, and they have kids all under the age of 12. The news of a children pastor’s wife…
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The Opposite of Love…
A few weeks ago at a conference one of the plenary speakers said something that has rolled around in my mind since then. She said the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is silence. (That may be the wrong word, but it conveys the thought.) When you ignore someone, you are basically saying, “I do not…
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The Pain of Satisfaction
The other day I read a story about a man I have admired for well over 20 years. He is the top in his profession, in my opinion. He has known tremendous success in just about any way you could measure it. Not just money, but integrity, family, awards… I have not known him personally, but everything I could ever…
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Be Awake in Your Own Life
I ran across a review at the NY Times website that caught my attention. The book is called The Slippery Year and it’s what the book is NOT about that caught me. The author said this: “It’s really a book about nothing,” said Ms. Gideon, 45, in a telephone interview last week from the summer home in Maine that she…
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Are there not days when the news is so overwhelming it just knocks the very wind out of you? It’s not the silly matters of Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. It’s not the antics of some athlete. The news, for whatever reason, will seem to take up the cause of some missing child or woman. This time it was from…
Category: Questions on life
