Think About It

Living a life of faith and following close to Jesus may not be unpredictable, but it can get pretty close. Priest and novelist Andrew Greeley said “If one wishes to eliminate confusion, uncertainty, tension, confusion and disorder from one’s life, there is no point in them getting mixed up either with Yahweh or Jesus of…

There’s a standing joke about what people are looking for in their “perfect” church. The punch line goes “as soon as you join, it won’t be perfect anymore.” Ha Ha! LOL. The joke is as corny as they come but the truth of the matter is clear. We will never find a church where everything…

Is the “good news” (gospel) still “good” news or do we no longer need a message of goodness and hope? We shouldn’t be surprised because scripture is clear when it declares “the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.” (1 Cor. 1:18) Yes, I know the verse follows with a “but.”…

Have you noticed a tendency in many older people is that they are looking back at life and not looking forward? This appears to be an indicator that they see the significance of their lives and perhaps the “best days” as those days gone by, rather than the plans, opportunities, and usefulness the Lord has…

Christianity complicates a life. Making the decision to take on a life of faith and seriously pursuing it will most certainly be more than the initiate bargained for. It doesn’t matter if your life of faith began at a church camp or altar at the age of 9 or if you found yourself more questioning,…

If you were around in 1855 you might have heard the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” People still sing it today. Carol King in 1971 wrote and sang “You’ve Got a Friend.” James Taylor also put that out in the same year and that was his only #1 Best Selling song. In…

There’s one thing we can give to Jesus that no-one else can give, and it’s the one thing that most of us struggle with regularly in our frantic, time-starved, device driven, non-stop lives. We tend to be very selfish with it and can find many ways to justify keeping it to ourselves. Our time. As…

Are you skeptical of God’s goodness? Most people are, at least sometimes. We all have our scripts as to how we want to see our lives work out: our kid’s happy and marrying well; having enough resources to live on both now and even after we possibly might retire; getting that sought after job; sustaining…

Most of you won’t relate to what I am about to write. But you probably know someone who could. I don’t know about you, but I have resigned myself to the fact that not all people will make their way to faith in Christ, including people I care for very much. Scripture speaks of one…

That’s what the recent cover of Time Magazine asks. Time magazine reached back to 1966 in form and color when they posed the question “Is God Dead?” While God may still be “dead” or a non-issue to many people today, questioning the existence of “truth” is very much “alive” whether debated in the context of…