One of the crazy things about life in Christ in a fallen world is that we don’t always live like we believe. Take deism. We often act as functional deists, thinking of God as a kind of cosmic …
A Grace-Filled Approach to STEM
I am sometimes asked why we make such a heavy financial investment in what, over the past decade or so, has come to be known as “STEM”-science, technology, engineering, and math-here at Grace. Others …
Harder and Softer
I’ve been in a reflective mood this week, because it has been nearly one year to the day since COVID turned our world upside down. A year ago, I was on a Go Week trip with our seniors in Washington …
The Gethsemane Prayer
As we enter the Lenten season and the march toward Easter, I’ve been reflecting on Christ’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. I was thinking about that prayer in the context of the challenges we’ve …
A Little Perspective
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. -James 1:17 I know at times we all get …
A Greater Glimpse of Leadership
I was reading in the New York Times that there has been a 35 percent drop in coronavirus cases recently in the U.S. The article reports that, in response, leaders in other parts of the country are now …