Ahhh. I love it when someone more adroitly says what I’m thinking. It makes it much easier for me to simply say, “Here, read this.” As per a previous disclaimer, if the whole Rob Bell controversy has you scratching your head and saying, “Who’s Rob Bell” (or John Piper or Justin Taylor, for that matter)? [...]

You’ve seen those pictures of a tree growing out of a rock. Given enough time, a very little seed can actually split granite in two. Though a seeming impossibility, a seed blown into a tiny crack in a rock has the ability to take hold and secure itself. Then, it begins to grow. Eventually it becomes [...]

I sat around a table last night over some really good coffee, discussing a radical overthrow of the universe. Everyone began to get really excited. We were chewing on the concept of what an encounter with this Being we call God might look like. It started innocently enough but quickly escalated to dangerous levels. Suddenly, we [...]

I’m disturbed. Greatly. I’m not sure why those who are not Christian would really have any inclination to become one. The feeding frenzy that occurs when someone says anything that is not “correct” in terms of the status quo, Christianly speaking, is horrifying. We are quick to condemn the Islamic response that is so brutal when someone [...]

According to the National Park Service, in Mammoth Cave, there’s a story under every rock, and behind every stalagmite. And, it is BIG, really, really big: Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest known cave, with more than 392 miles of interconnected passages—so long that if the second and third longest caves in the world were joined [...]

When I was younger, I made a trip out to New Mexico and stopped in at Carlsbad Caverns with my traveling companions. We walked for a while and the guide blithely assaulted us with detail after detail about the cave; suddenly he stopped, turned to face the group and said, “Everybody put your hand on the shoulder [...]

I’ve been camped out in Galatians now for over two weeks and, quite honestly, the book is becoming quite disturbing. I’m discovering that the situation Paul was confronting two millennia ago is still an issue that faces the church today. I keep thinking about the adage that those who don’t study history are condemned to repeat it. [...]

I’m currently working through Galatians. I’m trying to read it as though I’ve never read it before. That is difficult to do. I’m reading it in versions I typically don’t read, trying to get a fresh perspective on it and to not see it through the lenses I’ve so often used. That is helpful but [...]

I went to a movie on a whim last night. No big deal… except it was a 3-D movie and I was very impressed! It even had a pre-movie cartoon just like the movies always had when I was a kid. With the big ol’ 3-D glasses on, I was responding just like a kid, [...]