This last year hasn't been easy for anyone. We've lost friends and family, victims of a silent killer. The empty chair at the table. The empty closet. The silent walls. We've also lost friends and family to the strife of division. Mentally, we know that loss is a necessary ingredient in life, a cruel cosmic offset to every gain. Read more
In the face of a world that loves sin, that hates the idea of a holy God who commands repentance, and which has no place for an exclusive path to salvation, it is no wonder that our savior was murdered, and that his people everywhere are slandered, maligned, threatened, and even killed for preaching his message. Read more
There is a reason authoritarians hate Christianity because we are an empowered people who answer to a Higher Call and are a threat to their own petty tyrant rule. They despise people who are given a free choice and are encouraged to think and to act according to their conscience. We need to stand for righteousness, to oppose evil, and to never give in to the Lies of the Age. Read more
At some point, we must let go. Let go of the lies that once overpowered us. Let go of the wounds that once defined us. We must call ourselves by a new name. We must choose to live a new way. We must choose to believe the God who rescued us and learn to walk in that belief. You are either a victim of the world or a victor in Christ. You cannot be both. Read more
Their fathers and grandfathers tell their stories, passed on from the generations. Some of the battles are still fresh, shrapnel embedded in doorframes and rubble still in the alleyways. Read more
Much of the U.S. is smothered in smoke. There are some 80 fires ablaze across many Western States, but the two largest – The Dixie Fire in California and the Bootleg Fire in Oregon have combined to burn almost a million acres. People as far as Kentucky, Minnesota, Nashville, and even Boston – and many other locations are reporting hazy conditions. I’m in Colorado, 1,100 miles away, and I cannot see the hill just across the way. On Saturday, Denver... Read more
To live and speak everything without complaint or argument punctures a hole in the Bad Ship Lollipop. It sinks the comfortable, negative world. It suddenly changes the world view away from me and my cranky attitude. Read more
There are at least two thousand known phobias. From Novercaphobia (fear of your step-mother) to Pogonophobia (fear of beards) to Syngenesophobia ( fear of relatives,) there’s a named fear for nearly everything in our lives. But for babies, there are really only two measured fears – fear of falling and a fear of loud noises. Everything after that point is learned. After a stint in my crawl space and another in the attic, I found my fear. Stenophobia, a fear of... Read more
When I was a teen, I worked at a local restaurant as a busboy. It was my job to splash water in tall glasses for each new table, carry plates out for the waitresses and set the tables after each party finished eating. It was hard, honest work and I used the money to fuel my car and fund my pizza habit. I loved the work and the interaction with both staff and customers. Things changed when the boss gave... Read more
If we were super humans with cloaking power and extraordinary strength, we would rely on those powers to get us through. I've been there, relying on my wit, or my brains, or my cleverness to get my through life. And then the pot breaks and I realize I'm not such a hot commodity. We are full of divinity, wrapped in fragility. Brokenness is not an indictment. It's currency. Read more
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