When God shows up, it's often in the strangest places and when you least expect Him. That's good, because we know the principle: "Low predictability, high impact!” He likes to surprise us because He knows we remember things better that way. There is no one like Him! When He speaks, it’s like time stands still [...]
A few years ago I saw a Christian T-shirt with an image of a fish swimming upstream in opposition to a whole school of fish swimming in the opposite direction. I can’t remember the caption under the image but the message was clear. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to be willing to [...]
The man speaking on the early morning news show said the same thing I’ve always heard about investing for the future: You have to be in it for the long haul. Here’s why: If you don’t have the guts, the fortitude, to ride out all the ups and downs, bumps and dips, wild fluctuations and [...]
Can you imagine a world where nothing is named? How could we make sense of what we’re seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling? Everything – and everyone – would be experienced randomly. Without a name to assign to a face, how could we build a relationship? Without a name for our favorite foods, the [...]
I don’t live in the same town with some of my grandchildren, which means I only get to see them every year or so. Sometimes it’s even longer. I’m not happy about that … how far we live from one another … but the infrequency of our visits does give me a better perspective on [...]
With so many baby boomers entering retirement age, our culture is being bombarded with ads and information about investments. Aware that we might live well into our nineties (some even beyond that), we know we’ll need income we can count on to sustain us through the uncertainties of old age. Those who trusted Bernie Madoff [...]
Not long ago I had the opportunity to chat with a person who was finding it hard to accept God’s seemingly harsh dealings with Cain (see the account in Genesis 4). As I tried to explain what was happening from a biblical perspective, I could tell from her response she wasn’t buying it, which is [...]
Among holiday movies, It’s a Wonderful Life ranks high in popularity with most people. Many would say it’s their favorite Christmas movie ... and for good reason. The idea of the film is brilliant. Exploring the what ifs of the human experience, it asks the haunting questions that tug at our hearts. Can one life [...]
I’ve noticed a lot of charts popping up on Facebook lately. You know the ones … you have to see what word you can recognize first out of the maze of letters. I’m not sure what this is supposed to prove to us, but one thing’s for certain. A group of people can look at [...]
When I was a preteen I used to go to major league baseball games with my aunt and uncle. They lived in the Kansas City area and were die-hard Athletics fans. It was fun to tag along, learning from them the players’ names, what their strengths and weaknesses were, and which visiting teams posed the [...]
Adventuring with God 