Easter is an incredibly rich time.  It is a reminder of the fact we are terribly fallen, but it is a far, far greater reminder of the phenomenal opportunity we have of being restored.  It is inconceivable that God would die on a cross and rise again. Despite our depravity, that death was indeed solely for us.  That is both the striking message and … [Read more...]

There is that exhilaratingly incessant drive within us, that unidentified but entirely electrifying spark, that rogue passion that is part of us but whose larger part is so expansive that it seems not to be part of us at all.  There are feelings that completely defy our capacity to create, but not our ability to feel.  There is a seemingly … [Read more...]

What we want is opposite of what we have.  We want world peace, but instead we are beset with world chaos.  We want the hungry fed, but millions go hungry and millions more die from that very hunger.  We want medical cures to the diseases that ravage lives, families and nations, but untold thousands perish hourly.  We want communities that are free … [Read more...]

“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” - Isaiah 30:21 A detour that holds itself out as the road from which it deviated is a path to regret.  Yet, it seems that we embrace such deceptions and spend more time on the detours of life than the road of life … [Read more...]

We like to ‘fool around’ in ways that are sometimes rather humorous, quite innocent and very healthy.  At other times we ‘fool around’ in ways that are rather devious and quite destructive.  Sometimes we want to set the seriousness of life aside for a moment and be a bit playful.  We need to remind ourselves that life is a serious venture where … [Read more...]

We’re not all too bad at bobbing and weaving.  We’re pretty good at side-stepping and side-lining issues.  We’re quite adept at cutting and spinning, doing a bit of fanciful dodging, as well as deftly running the obstacle course without getting so much as a scratch on us.  We’ve learned to see things coming from a long ways away, and we’ve figured … [Read more...]

We Are a Mess We are a mess.  We are a mess because we are a people on a mad rant.  Sadly, we have become blinded to the fact that we are blinded by a host of pathetically self-serving agendas.  And the pathetic nature of these agendas are evidenced by the fact that they are unable to stand up to the slightest scrutiny despite how rigorous our … [Read more...]

We hear a lot of things.  A whole lot of things.  We’re incessantly bombarded with sheets and shards and streams of information.  It’s about bits and bytes and boatloads of data that we ingest and digest without even realizing that we’re doing that.  Either consciously or unconsciously we compile all of that sordid stuff into some sort of choppy … [Read more...]

Complacency is a potently tragic hallmark of our lives.  We’ve certainly got bunches of it.  In fact, as the old saying goes, we’ve got it “in spades.”  Complacency is conceived in the bosom of familiarity, where something becomes so commonplace that we errantly render it as ‘common.’  We’ve yet to beat this terribly corrosive tendency we have to … [Read more...]

  It seems that real love is something that we can touch, but rarely grasp.  Sometimes it visits us in massive surges that effortlessly sweep over us and leave us utterly breathless in the aftermath.  At other times love dissipates into some thin and sparse pool that is barely deep enough to dip the tip of our fingers in.  And at yet other … [Read more...]