A recent article in The Wall Street Journal observes that it took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million people.  The television took 16 years; the internet took 4; and Facebook reached the same size audience in only 2 years.  Those numbers illustrate the speed with which networking and communication is changing; but it [...]

Dead data. That is the dominant, contemporary, sterile notion of truth.  The notion that truth can be accumulated and stock-piled.  You don’t even need to decide which parts of it are important, never mind act on it.  Think Wikipedia. But in Scripture truth is actualized and lived.  And if it isn’t, then it isn’t truth [...]

It is common to hear people play truth and love off against one another.  Some argue that truth is all that matters.  Others argue that love is the only thing that counts. In the early Christian tradition, however, truth and love are described as necessary and complementary.  The reason is clear: Truth without love can [...]

Truth also frees.  And here, as with love, there is a good deal of confusion. For many God’s truth is considered limiting.  Tell me the truth about God and God’s desire for my life and all that will happen is that God will take things away from me. We have an inner city ministry here [...]

So, what are my prayers for you? Three things. I pray that you don’t let the breadth of what you don’t know or what you don’t understand keep you from living out of what you know. I pray that you will find the balance in your life that comes from truth that loves and love [...]

According to Nelson Henderson, “The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”  He is remembered only because his son Wes wrote a fairly simple and poorly edited work chronicling his family’s life in the Swan River Valley of Canada.  Henderson moved from Ireland to settle [...]