Bearing Light
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. – John 1:3 If you’re like me, you’ve read every article you could get your hands on
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. – John 1:3 If you’re like me, you’ve read every article you could get your hands on
Betty Crocker is not real. She was conjured up by someone at the Washburn Crosby Milling Company who wanted to personalize the responses to baking questions of housewives who wrote
Isn’t the very idea of holiness offensive in a 21st-century, no-holds-barred world? Shouldn’t that term be reserved for angry church ladies who want to suck all the fun out of
(This blog first appeared in October, 2014, as our church waited on God to provide three new staff members who would move us forward in our mission. God has since provided,
“The word became flesh,” John wrote, “and lived among us and we beheld his glory.” God — perfect in every detail — decided to be normal and called it glorious.
I have a goal. It is to do one regulation push-up. One.I was inspired to this goal by Olivia Perez-Breland who posted one day on Facebook that she’d accomplished the
Our church has been in a season of remarkable transition this year — a season of trusting and waiting and listening and deepening. Change is not usually easy and this
When I was five years old, my family changed churches. We were a family of eight, but my mother, sister and I were the only ones who went to church
I go to the gym early in the day. Most days, I am struck by all the body types around me, quietly doing their thing on machines and with weights.
(For a deeper discussion of friendship, check out Brian Edgar’s new book, God is Friendship.)I lost a friend. In fact, I’ve lost several. A little more than a year ago,
One of my top ten movies is What About Bob? In one scene, Bob and Sigmund (or Siggy) are in Siggy’s room having a sleep-over. Bob is a middle-aged neurotic
In the story of God’s people, in the book of Exodus we get the whole story of how the tabernacle was built out in the desert. The tabernacle was meant