A Twitter friend of mine who pastors in Germany, Phillip Burton (@ktownpastor), sent out this tweet yesterday that got me thinking: It’s always interesting to me how…
Israel wanted a king. They wanted an earthly ruler so that they might be like the other nations. God knew that Israel would ask for…
My mother spent the better part of her adolescence in London where she attended an all girls’ school called Rosa Bassett. On the first day…
In the New Testament we are told that on at least two occasions Jesus fed a multitude of hungry people with only a tiny bit…
By the time we get to Matthew 5:20 we are not that far into Jesus’ sermon. Yet, it seems he has already turned our world…
In the New Testament the Greek word for ‘one another’ is allelon (this word was first highlighted to me by these folks). It was repeatedly used…
I met Mike Dyer eleven months ago, which begs the question, Why am I preaching his funeral? That is a question that I intend to…
We don’t know a whole lot about Leah. We know that Jacob was tricked into marrying her. Evidently he fulfilled his responsibilities as her husband…
In my lifetime I have seen the social status of cigarette smoking change drastically. Throughout my adolescence and early adult life second hand smoke was…
I’ve been reading a little bit on anger lately (things like this and this). And it has me thinking about how the issue is addressed…
As an educator I have noticed there are two words that prompt a general widespread panic in a classroom faster than any others. Those two…
It would be nice if we could choose our garbage day. Obviously this would cause some major problems for the trash collectors, but would be…
The term hospitality conjures up significantly different images for different people. Unfortunately, the term has been reduced in many minds to the concept of entertaining…
I am going to get technical on you for the first little bit of this. Hang with me. I know you can. Attachment Theory is…
The requirement of all summer vacations is to spend some time entertaining the idea of one day buying a place nearby…of becoming a local. Whether…