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!

We’ve always tried to spend less than we make. Eat by candlelight as often as possible (even when you don’t want to.  Sometimes just...

My granddaughter moved in a few weeks ago.  O yeah – my daughter and son-in-law moved in too, but I’m writing about my granddaughter...

Plunge your pole, hard, into the place you anticipate placing your foot.  Look carefully.  Step quickly.  Go! They’ve collapsed under my...

My wife and I celebrated 38 years of married life yesterday.  Here are 38 thoughts on what’s contributed to our marriage not just...

Continuing in a series of looking at ways in which the gifts God wants us to know and enjoy are stolen from us, this entry and the next...

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

God affirms eros. Healthy eros requires a cocktail of practices on a regular basis, including affirmation, invitation, respecting each...

Give, give, give, means that there can be only one response.  Receive, receive, receive.  We can’t earn the gift that is Christ.  We’ll...

Words matter. Mr. Trump spoke on the bus about making unwanted sexual advances and literally grabbing women. He spoke to Howard Stern...

The stress is about some frustrations regarding Christians fighting each other.  It’s about questions regarding the future because even...

I’m 19 and a good friend had landed the part of Jesus in Godspell, so he invites me to see him on opening night.  It’s been two years...

Schladming for a little bit of rest before I head up to England for a week of speaking at Capernwray Hall.   The week is a break in the...

“Peace be to you” says Jesus, standing in the midst of the disciples, in a room with a locked door where he’s suddenly appeared without...

Truth be told though, the ocean of details can conspire with my own Type A personality and propensity to get anxious about stuff, and...

The story exemplifies the spirit of many who lived through the Great Depression and fought a World War in Europe and Asia at the same...

just to be loved… can it be enough? My previous post offered the first two of five essential values for leaders to nurture and develop if...

Today I’ll get on a bus with my wife and travel from Freiberg, Germany to Munich and then a train from there to Schladming, Austria, on...

These prayers, though, are also very provincial.  They’re about our real situation because mostly, this is what we know about when we’re...

In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...