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...
A turn of events

A turn of events

I’m in awe! I’ve begun tutoring an adult student who recently arrived in the US from a war-battered country. He wants to learn English (well, American)! From scratch! But not only is it a new language he needs to acquire, but a new alphabet to decipher for reading and...
Tag! You’re It!

Tag! You’re It!

Of all the categories of US ambassadorships, there is one that sounds remarkably like the one conveyed upon every follower of Jesus. It is ‘Ambassador Extraordinary,’ defined as: an individual who is the highest-ranked diplomatic minister going on a special mission....
Our long obedience in the same direction

Our long obedience in the same direction

I was struck, waking up this morning, that this day has never existed before. These 24 hours are living history. Who knows what will transpire during these brief and fleeting hours? (well, besides God, of course). Yesterday, one little unedited line of computer coding...
Like a Waldo in the crowd

Like a Waldo in the crowd

In multiple countries now, there are televised talent shows offering as prizes either huge sums of cash or rigorous coaching by a famous personality in a matched category. Each platform has massive crowd appeal and tens of millions of faithful viewers. A percentage of...