Streaming Grace

Streaming Grace

This past week I had the unique privilege of being in a meeting of pastors, specifically, a Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and me. The meeting began with a discussion centered around donuts which had been purchased for the gathering. Somehow,...
What difference would it make?

What difference would it make?

It’s every day. We have thoughts and attitudes, words and actions. Many, we assume, are so benign as to have little or no importance. But what if God opened our ‘ledger’ and showed us what really transpired as a result of our decisions? The people impacted, our...
Humanity – God’s choosing

Humanity – God’s choosing

Every once in a while, there’s a cartoon featuring a guy obviously in the throes of making a difficult decision and there, on one shoulder is a mini cherub, and on the other, a mini demon. Both ‘guests’ are speaking in the ear of this befuddled person. One message is...
Not kids anymore

Not kids anymore

‘Discretion’ is defined as cautious reserve in speech. ‘Reserve’ is defined as cautious in making a full explanation, restraint in the free expression of one’s mind. Neither of these is to be expected in a little child. It is pretty much useless to try to...
A life map

A life map

Apart from his family’s middle-of-the-night, harried escape from Herod into Egypt, when he was too little to remember, Jesus’ rural Galilean upbringing was mostly uneventful. At the very least it was unrecorded. He would have spent part of his boyhood playing with his...
The joy of knowing

The joy of knowing

God’s story is, on the one hand, solid, unwavering, faithful, sure. On the other hand, there are man’s instabilities, disobediences, unfaithfulnesses, waywardnesses.  Almost at the beginning, the terrible and far-reaching consequences of the Fall are outlined for...