#Love

Facing Threats w/ Faith, Hope, and Love

In a time of great uncertainty and fear, I am as tempted to anxiety and even panic as anyone else. Perhaps I should instead take...

Abraham: Idol Shop = Bull: China Shop

An ancient Midrash legend tells of Abraham in his early life, living in Ur of the Chaldees in Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers"...

Humility (aka Knowing One's Place)

Jesus tells Satan in rebuke, “It is written,‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’”...

Mercy is True Power

It is all too easy to stick to the attitude that might is right. In contrast, mercy usually seems like weakness, a foolish abandonment of...

Packing Your Coffin

Recently I heard about a rather fascinating tradition among some of the great missionaries, albeit morbidly bizarre to our confused...

The Moral Life

I will never forget my first parent-teacher conference shortly after beginning my job as a high school theology teacher. I had a student...

The Two Caves

There once was a man who claimed to be more than just a man. Everywhere he journeyed the crowds flocked to him, even if only to catch a...

Beyond My Horizons

The whole vast expanse of the cosmos lies before me, around me, even right in the midst of my beating heart if I will but awaken. Far too...

"To The Heights!"

I found this picture recently and it got me thinking. Saint Paul famously wrote in his first letter to the Christian community of...

God Wants You!

"God seeks you rather than your gift. Christ seeks the one whom he has redeemed by his blood rather than what you have found in your...

Faith, Hope, & Love

"And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13 Faith. Hope. Love. We hear...