The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy… but I have come that they might have life!  – Jesus the Christ Each untimely loss is tragic,...

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

On the surface of things, it appears simple enough right?  Women can’t teach or have authority over men.  Done. On the other hand.  The...

I don’t present them in order of importance.  Rather, I read this book last fall, saw it on my shelf, and thought, “Why not start with...

Born in Germany and educated both there and at Oxford, Delmer was uniquely qualified to have a foot in both German and British culture, a...

The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day… life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country...

a few of the thousands save by courage, hospitality, and generosity. Every time I travel in Europe I try to read some European history,...

In a previous post, I offered a review of Beauty and the Beast, noting the significance in the story line that people had forgotten their...

This stuff has value. This stuff has limited value. It has value because everyone could use a motivational shot in the arm, a reminder...

Whether it’s Beauty and the Beast and the transformation of relationship, A Christmas Carol and the transformation of values, or The...

The problem, of course, is that this runs counter to the exhortation of Jesus who reminds us that we are light, and as such we’re made to...

The first winter we lived in the mountains, an early storm knocked down hundreds of fir trees deep in the cascades, and those trees...

Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...

One of the great paradoxes of Christianity is that there isn’t a single thing we can do save ourselves, transform ourselves, or grow...

On Sunday November 25th I’ll be speaking at all our Bethany locations on the very important subject of how to turn spiritual disciplines...

It’s this simple: If you’ve read it, write and post a review of The Map is Not the Journey on either Amazon or Facebook. show me a link...

Christ followers are exiles.  Accept it.  We always have been, always will be.  When Paul said “maranatha” in I Corinthians 16:22 he was...

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it.  She’s was onto something, surely.  When Dave...

Thanks be to God, the tide is turning.  Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner occurred at a time when they were viewed as isolated incidents...

The long slow process of spiritual transformation is nearly identical to the process of physical transformation.  A little bit, every...