Sometimes in life, business, and ministry, you encounter people, situations, and attitudes that make your blood boil. Your visceral reaction is to stomp the living daylights out of that raunchy attitude, express your indignation over the unjust situation, and put… Continue reading

We gathered in the shade of an old oak tree that stood sentinel over the neatly placed markers that signified the lives of ten or twelve souls whose earthly remains were interred beneath its shadows. We joined hands as we… Continue reading

      I read this some years back and it reminded me  of how you can be young, have few resources, and feel insignificant – yet, make a big difference. Hattie May Wiatt was an example of this truth. Give what… Continue reading

How does one find extraordinary holiness in ordinary moments? How does that which is such a part of the backdrop of our human experience as to be profaned take on the air of eternal significance and other worldly importance? What sets… Continue reading

I resist wearing labels such as "Conservative" or "Liberal" with an upper case "C" or "L."  It comes to surface as I hear the word,"wing" attached to directional terms such as "left" or "right."  This comes from a guy who… Continue reading

    "Monitor your own heart and motives under God and leave the rest of His servants to Him. Do not surrender your confidence to the attitudes of other people." Order from Amazon or Amazon Kindle.       Continue reading

If there is ultimate value in the world, then that value has implications. Much of this was originally posted in 2009. I have added to it and rewritten some. It bounces off an interview with Paul Tillich, with whom the… Continue reading

"It is going to take a fair dose of humility to get us through life. And humility is no stranger to confidence. They are not only compatible, but they exist in a symbiotic relationship. In other words, they feed and nurture each… Continue reading

Again, the psalmist expresses the full range of human emotion, sentiment, and prayers that can only truly be answered by divine, compassion, power, propitiation and absorption of reflexive wrath – wrath that boomerangs from God and back upon Himself. As… Continue reading