I’m ashamed to admit this.
It was Harry Sparks who first told me the love between a father and mother was like a misshaped tree, and therefore different and better than all other love. Boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and...
Between now and November 4, it's inevitable that you'll discuss politics with colleagues and friends. Whether you want to or not, and...
When we explore the topic of family here at High Calling Blogs—the work of family—we don’t want to limit the discussion to parenting. “Family” includes brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles,...
Last week Rowan went for his pre-kindergarten check-up at the pediatrician. After he undressed and snapped himself into the soft, tiger-paw-print gown and been weighed and measured, the nurse...
Simplicity is not a new concept. Henry David Thoreau dreamed of keeping his accounts on his thumbnail. For centuries people have known that simple solutions are often the best solutions. What about...
One morning I spied my son sitting on one of the kitchen chairs, his toes easily touching the floor. I stopped and stared. Something about his posture and those long, lean legs …...
I remember reading in the late 1980s that because of computers and their productivity we were entering a world of limitless free time, a calm and creative age.
But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"
After Jesus was arrested, he was taken to the home of the high priest, where he was interrogated by Jewish leaders from...
I don’t know about you, but my first response to this section of Jesus’ sermon is one of considerable uneasiness.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified ... for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
“As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For, he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped...
"We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body."
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!”
The Gospel can sound crazy and nuts, giving anyone reason to reject it.
I have the tendency to ask my loved ones to pay attention to all the great things I’m doing.
Jesus used this healing to demonstrate that his cleanliness is more powerful than her uncleanliness.
I have heard miracles described not as things that should not be, but instead as revealing the way things should be.
