At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, preaching “the good news of the kingdom.” He went up on a hill and delivered the “Sermon on the Mount,” talking not to the politically powerful or academic elite, but to the powerless, the poor and the people of the land. He tells them: “You […]

A NEW YEAR 2020 is finally over! While the coronavirus lingers and so many remain at risk, there is hope for recovery with implementing the new vaccines. We hope and pray that spring will bring some return to normalcy. 2020 has been a year for the ages. So many have suffered, so many have died.

Christmas comes to tell us that what we long for deep in our souls is a reality. Christmas 1995 was a very magical Christmas for me.  On that Christmas, my wife, Stacy, and I were awaiting our firstborn son. Our hearts were warmed that Christmas.  We felt something different. We felt a bond with Mary,

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It’s not just the food, family and friends. It is the reminder that this act, this giving thanks, is so important for our souls. Thanksgiving is a time to slow down, to be “full” of thanks, to remember how blessed we really are. Thanksgiving is the lever that

Growing up, I sometimes heard the Christian “playbook,” the script for what Christianity is all about, described in the following way:  be good, go to church, don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t cuss, say your prayers, give to the church, and one day (we hope) you will get into “heaven,” where there will be so much

“The Christians, O king, have found the truth by going and seeking for it….They do not do to others what they would not wish to be done to themselves. They comfort those who wrong them and make friends of them; they labor to do good to their enemies…He that has gives freely to him who

T.S. Eliot wrote his famous poem “Little Giddings” during World War II, as German bombs enflamed London, and as hate and prejudice spread. In the poem, Eliot used the image of fire as a symbol for that which could either destroy humanity or save it.  On the one hand are those passions that consume us

Have you seen the Netflix docudrama, The Social Dilemma? If you haven’t, I would recommend it. Called by some as the most important documentary of our times, it provides a startling analysis of our social-media-driven culture. Through interviews with numerous former Big Tech executives, the film examines the meteoritic rise of social media over the

In the last post, I made the point that a “Christian view of politics” means that Christians should be humane and engaged, but critical and hesitant about any political party or social or global agenda. That is our “Prophetic Stance.” That post was a little “theoretical.”  I hope to get practical in this one. Practically

You could not write a script like this. Amid a pandemic of epic proportions, we have complete gridlock in Washington and one of the most heated political elections in American history. The situation intensified with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the confirmation battle over her successor just weeks before the election. The political