Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal The picture you see here was taken...

A survey of the Bible finds that whenever there’s a wholesale disruption to ‘normal life’, God can use it to call us back, not to the way...

people in the Bible who met disorder with enough humility and curiosity to ask God what they should learn come out healthier on the far side

I recently posted a quote on Facebook from a favorite book of mine. It read: What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is...

Today I finished a full loop from my tiny house, a full 3.5 miles, with only a little bit of walking and I can safely say that I’m nearly...

If you're any kind of endurance athlete, you've likely heard of Heart Rate Variability, the notion that when you're least stressed, the...

Meanwhile, there’s a verse in the Bible that says, “above all else guard your heart”, for from it flow the wellsprings of life.”  I’ve...

Years ago I found myself in a debate over an organization’s mission statement.  At the time it read, “meeting people at their point of...

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming...

They would, in other words, rather look on a relationship from the outside, experiencing the hollow thrill of being an observer, rather...

All right then.  It will be a day to put on the touring skis, which means attaching friction creating skins to the base of the skis and...

While you drink your tea (TEA!!!  ugh), you scan your schedule and realize you have three difficult meetings today and then a...

Is self denial a burden? In the coming days, I offer some thoughts from my devotions in Jeremiah.  It’s been too long since I’ve written,...

As a result, I’ve had time to think, and the convergence zone of some teaching I’m doing for staff at the church I lead, and my reading...

“we started when we were kids and just never stopped” when are you too old to ride your bike to church? They’re brothers, these two guys...

The Achilles story is appropriate  because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes.   Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...

a book about the importance of opening oneself to direct encounter with creation, in preparation for a  40 day hike in the Alps this...

Fear is a net which evil casts over us that we might become ensnared and fall. Those who are afraid have already fallen. D. Bonhoeffer I...

sometimes your world gets shattered Dream big and work hard for it, because doing so takes you places — not always where you want, but...