Off the Charts!

Off the Charts!

You just can’t make this stuff up. It’s right there for all to read, this story of the Israelites, soon after their Moses-led liberation from 400 years of Egyptian slavery. God provided them with manna to eat but they quickly began to yearn for what they had left...
You wanna come along?

You wanna come along?

Think back to when you were a child, and your family made the trip to your grandparents’ house for Christmas. Or maybe a time when you went to a school reunion. Or maybe an annual event or conference that you were looking forward to. The trip itself wasn’t the main...
Après-storm

Après-storm

Pilate despairingly posed the moot question to Jesus: ‘What is Truth?’ Some in our day would query similarly: ‘What is Peace?’ Oh sure, we are familiar with definitions written in dictionaries and the like, but for the ‘boots on the ground’ reality, how is it lived...
Watch your speed!

Watch your speed!

Momentum: bare toes encountering table legs discover its existence. So do shoppers who attempt to pass through closed, all-glass doorways. So do vehicles failing to cede right-of-way to a tree. We live with this thing called momentum every day of our lives, more often...
Finding our beginning

Finding our beginning

Anticipated attendance: 50,000. Actual attendance: 460,000. Woodstock, August 1969. The major theme of this 4-day event was peace, and fittingly, even with the overwhelming numbers, even with epic traffic jams, even with scorching temperatures, high humidity, and...