Posts tagged “Hope”
Better than a five-star hotel
What’s the best room you’ve ever stayed in? I’ve never spent a night in a five-star hotel, but I have been in a few…
Let us sing!
Music plays an important role in creating the “magic” of the Christmas season. As the temperature drops where I live in Wisconsin and the…
You will go home again
Have you ever gone to a class reunion or back to visit a former place of employment? Neither is quite the same, is it?…
The good, the bad, the ugly, and God
I’ve been thinking about Abraham from the Bible a lot lately. At the beginning of his biblical account when he was still called Abram,…
God with us
Last summer my family saw the war tent of General George Washington. We sat in an intimate theatre in Philadelphia’s Museum of the American…
Our Redeemer lives
What do you say when everything goes wrong? when life falls apart? when it feels like you can’t go on? What do you cry…
We did start the fire!
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that anyone reading this has heard the famous Billy Joel song “We Didn’t Start…
L stands for Life
Do you remember from back in science class how plants stay alive? They live, in part, because of photosynthesis, the process by which they…
Punctuation matters
We’re not going to get into an argument about grammar, OK? But please understand that one person’s heart may swell at a well-placed whom…
Why I love imperfect worship
When I gather with others and we worship together, it is not heaven because … I’m here, and I’m imperfect. We all have sin…
Two valleys tell one story
Two valleys surround Jerusalem, just as Jesus surrounds us. The Kidron Valley runs between Jerusalem’s eastern edge and the Mount of Olives. In Bible…
The hidden force behind violence . . . And what you can do about it
I’ll never forget where I was on April 20, 1999. I was a sophomore in high school and had just finished golf practice. My…