I’ve been known to straighten a picture or two when the host isn’t looking. My office is a wreck, but when it comes to doing something the way it’s supposed to be done...
When I first begin reading the description of love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, I'm encouraged, but not especially troubled. I try to...
In 1989 my wife and I arrived in San Antonio, fresh out of seminary, where we graduated together with identical degrees. We came because Jeanene had been hired as a chaplain in the Baptist Health...
There were fireflies and one lone sprinkler fanning droplets onto grass before reaching just beyond a low retaining wall in a shower of water that danced at my feet.
Craig Ehlo’s most memorable NBA match was in 1989—Cleveland v. Chicago—in the fifth and deciding game of the opening round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. Ehlo played for Cleveland. Chicago had...
My wife and I adopted our daughter, Martha, in China last September. Trans-Pacific travel with a toddler, I learned, is not for...
I am convinced that we could make the world a better place if we would simply focus on one aspect of love...
I recently read a fascinating book by James Gleick. It's called Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Pantheon, 1999). Gleick shows...
One of the things I loved about living in Southern California was the proximity of the local mountains.
I've read 1 Corinthians 13 more times than I can remember when performing weddings. For a while, this "Love Chapter" went out of style, as couples preferred more innovative weddings. But when they...
Anne Jackson has traveled around the world telling stories of hope found in the least likely of places. In her latest book...
Each year on their country’s Independence Day, people in the villages of Indonesia take part in a tradition known as Panjat Pinang. Nut Trees, which tend to grow straight and tall, are cut...
In the middle of his discussion of spiritual gifts, Paul seems to change the subject with a digression on love. But what appears at first to be an interruption is, in fact, the...
As we have seen several times during our study of 1 Corinthians 12, the church in Corinth was in a mess because of the misuse of spiritual gifts. Christians who experienced certain gifts,...
Rosie, the matriarch of our little country church, scooted through the crowd and down the center aisle to find me before the postlude even began. ...
The third of three articles on the importance of management."The most important thing you'll ever do is management," I told the students...
In his book The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work, Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager...
I don’t know if there is a name for this in-between time. ...
After the Apostle Paul left the church he had founded in Corinth, the believers there began to experience the power by the Holy Spirit working in and through them. Some of the Corinthian Christians...
I love you as much as all the stars in the sky.
