It’s Christmas time again. Many people spend Black Friday getting up at 3 am to go stand in line at the mall for “deals” (standing outside the mall at 3 am waiting to get in does not sound like a …
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Thank You Note
Thank you notes are interesting social graces in our society. Many folks these days don’t even take the time to write them, and when they do, they do it via email or quick handwritten note that looks …
Getting Jesus Right
If you’re asked if you love Jesus, I know most of us (those who read this, anyway) would answer, “Yes, of course.” But, who is it we love? If you’re married, imagine that you said to your husband …
A Cross-Shaped Heart
I think when I’m running after work. It’s therapeutic; I leave the day on the road behind me. God often speaks to me while I run (I know some of you are thinking, “He speaks to me, too. He tells me …
The Greater Pleasures
I have my list. If I won the lottery, I have a list of things I’d do with it. I’d probably rent a house in Seaside for a month, so our whole family could see what it was like to live down there for …
Raising Exiles
Barna Group president David Kinnaman recently noted that we live in a complicated, accelerated culture. The culture in which most of us were raised could best be described as a modern day “Jerusalem”- …
Acting Like What We Are- Screwtape version
(Note: During World War II, C.S. Lewis unearthed The Screwtape Letters: notes written by a master demon to his apprentice nephew, in which the former offers advice for tempting human beings under the …
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Living in Wartime
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” - The Usual Suspects Truer words were never spoken than those uttered by the immortal Keyser Soze. When you start …
Going Together
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together – African proverb I was listening to Greg Thornbury, President of King’s College in New York, the other day. He was commenting on …
Meaningful Victory
In the days of the Roman Empire, military commanders who had been victorious in battle were given a triumph-that’s where we get that word. A triumph was a civil ceremony celebrating the …
Developing the Heart of God
I desperately want to develop the heart of God, and I want my kids to have it, too. God tells Jeremiah, and us, to seek the welfare of the place to which we have been exiled, because in its welfare …
Disciplining Gratefulness
If you give your children everything they want whenever they want it, chances are no one likes them. Sorry. The reason is that giving them everything they want whenever they want it creates a sense …