Dear Green Lake Before my five year departure from Washington, I walked the frozen shores with the woman who is now my wife and after...

Behavior needs to match mission, right? They did it “according to the book”.  With too many passengers and not enough seats, they asked...

Over 37 years, two stockings have become ten. JOY! It was in the late summer of 1976 when I first made my way north to Seattle,...

It was a low point for me in my seminary career. “If he’s right, I’m finished” I remember thinking to myself.  I’d later, in a...

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...

During the days between now and Christmas, I want to share some reflections with you about the many gifts that are part of the One Gift...

“Speaking of Jesus”, which is one of my favorite books, precisely because the author has a knack for telling people about Jesus as if...

It’s nothing new. And further, it’s nothing new to note that it’s all being done in God’s name by both sides. Giving a soldier a Bible...

From “The Jesus Storybook Bible” by Sally Lloyd-Jones. Yesterday, in the church I lead, I spoke on the importance of reading the Bible on...

“when the raft in the ocean is safer than our home, we’ll go” With the train station closed in Budapest, over 70 dead in a truck on the...

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...

But now here you are, seated and in your right mind,  wondering how it happened that you were a different person yesterday. The answer’s...

this video (or the print version of the article) reveals a trend in the United States whereby a larger and larger percentage of the...

We know the Bible, the words on scroll, know it like the back of our hands.  But the Bible doesn’t bring peace.  Neither does...

“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...

“Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance.  Moses...

I’m happy to offer a repost today of something offered earlier this summer during my sabbatical because it seems so very appropriate...

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...

We’re waiting for the cable car that will haul us up to the Douglass Hut, the base from which we’ll be hiking over a couple of passes to...