I have been busy with work, so have not followed the news very closely. Yet I have followed it closely enough to know about the recent school shooting in Florida which left 17 dead and one young man in custody. … Continued
What is patience? You have doubtless heard the old saying. ‘Patience is a virtue.’ But, more specifically, how do you define patience? What is it? Why should we want it? And how do we get more of it if we … Continued
Yesterday morning, as I was sipping coffee and trying to wake up before leaving for work, a woman from my Sunday School class messaged me on Facebook. She had come across a video that reminded her of my most recent … Continued
There will be a crisis of leadership someday, in which good men of sound judgment are in short supply. And the world will look for replenishing its stock of leaders to the men of my generation who played computer games … Continued
Out Of The Abundance Of The Heart What does speaking the truth in love mean? And how do we go about judging the character of those who claim to do this, ourselves especially? In Luke’s gospel account, we find Jesus … Continued
The right to life has been persistently in my thoughts this week. Last Friday was the 45th annual March for Life in Washington D.C., marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. For the first … Continued
Several years ago, I wrote an article about being blocked by an old friend of mine on Facebook. Someone I had considered close and respected in high school asked me to stop commenting on what he was posting. And he … Continued
My generation – the Millennial generation – grew up with an extreme excess of advertising and material goods. So much was artificial, and still is. Whatever had any original appeal was taken and duplicated endlessly so it could be sold … Continued
What does it mean to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves? Consider the Biblical narrative. The serpent tempted Eve by asking “Did God really say?” Cain murdered Abel because God had accepted his sacrifice. Jacob tricked his father … Continued
On the evening of Wednesday, January 3, 2018, my wife and I were settling in for the night. We were both on our iPhones checking the evening’s notifications after putting our children to bed, chatting as we did. At a … Continued