Have you ever seen someone do something that was completely incomprehensible to you? They took some action or said something that didn’t make a single lick of sense, and the experience left you scratching your head and wondering what that was about.
One thing that I normally don’t post much about is politics. Part of it stems from a hesitation to interject myself into matters I don’t fully understand. It can be difficult to keep up to date on everything that’s going on, and so much of it is spin in our…
This was the Old Testament reading in our congregation this past weekend: Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed… And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the…
Those three words are ones that we human beings like to throw at God from time to time. “Where were You?” When we feel like we’re lost and hurting, when it seems like our world is coming crashing down around us, when we’re surrounded by pain and misery, we want…
Here’s an interesting bit of Biblical trivia: aside from Jesus’ resurrection, there’s only one miracle that’s mentioned in all four gospels. Do you know which one it is? Well, the the title of this post is a bit of a give-away, isn’t it? Now I’ve read some interesting theories as…
Do you hear the world groaning? It’s faint, easily drowned out by the business and busy-ness of our lives. Truth be told, I think we often do our best to ignore the groaning when we do hear it. We want to pretend like it’s not happening or that it’s a…
Earlier this week, I sat down with my copy of Entertainment Weekly‘s summer movie preview and I flipped through it, taking note of all the movies that I have to go see this summer. And yes, I phrased that correctly. I have to go. It is imperative that I see…
This is post 2 of 6 in the series “A Mountain-Top Experience” My testimony, of sorts, about how I came to understand how faith intersects with emotions. Up on the Mountain Getting Caught by the Death Trap Moses on the Mountain Elijah on the Mountain Peter on the Mountain Coming…
A few months back, a bunch of my friends started sharing the same article on Facebook. It was a blog post about a cliche that Christians throw around, namely, “God won’t give you more than you can handle.” The author pointed out that yes, sometimes we are given more than…