Once a year they roll over my house like a tidal wave, consuming everything in sight. I work for days preparing, cooking, cleaning—readying the annual feast for our church youth group.
In the 1972 Olympics, after one lap in the 800-meter run, Dave Wottle, in his white cap, was in last place. His extraordinary comeback to win the gold medal is one of the...
Recently, during a year of research leave from my university, I made a series of journeys—pilgrimages, actually—to Mount Athos, Greece. Known to some as “the Holy Mountain,” this isolated part of...
The musical group U2's Bono quotes Eugene Peterson from the stage. Readers of the best-selling Bible, The Message, find themselves holding onto...
We Christians sometimes try to be holier than God, especially when it comes to creation.
One of the striking and, frankly, sad aspects of Mark’s Gospel is the description of Jesus’ relationship with his natural family. Mark does not give us any account of Jesus’ birth. The first...
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Today, we come to the end of the first half of Ephesians. Throughout many months, we have been reflecting our way through...
"Now where has my painter gone?" the man wondered as he looked out the window. He'd hired a college student to paint...
When I was in college, I had some Christian friends who liked to ask me a peculiar question: "How is your walk?" When I first heard this, I quickly figured out that it...
Earlier in Genesis, we were introduced to Joseph the self-centered young man who dreamt of his own glory. He delighted in being the favored son of his father, angering his brothers with his...
“Sometimes,” confesses salsa dancer Dana Ray, “we need the loneliness of crying on the kitchen floor to push us to the questions that matter.”
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger starts of every meeting with a personal check-in.
Luke 14 consistently emphasizes the cost of discipleship.
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God’s various gifts are handed out everywhere; but they all originate in God’s Spirit…Each person is given something to do that shows...
It's hard to ask peole to act like owners if they're not.
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. If you speak, you should do so as one who...
The parable of the ten minas (“pounds” in the NRSV translation) is set in the workplace of high finance. A rich —...
Like millions of people throughout the world, I became a devoted fan of Downton Abbey. This PBS drama tells the story of an aristocratic British family in the first decades of the twentieth century...
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