Eugene Peterson’s book, “Run with the Horses”, based on Jeremiah, was the foundation and inspiration for this article. Believe it or not, trouble and hardship don’t have to ruin our lives. We can live well under the most difficult circumstances. It can even bring the best...
What does it mean to age in a church culture that’s obsessed with and idolizes youthfulness? As most of you know, I recently reached my Big 7-0hhhhhhhh milestone birthday. Someone wrote, “life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us and are...
What does it mean to be a naturally supernatural person? This is a question I’ve been exploring for decades. So on this morning of 2019 I found myself reflecting on that question yet again. Here’s what I’ve come up with… so far. I’m coming to understand...
We’re in the Advent season and soon we’ll be celebrating the event that changed the world forever – the birth of Christ. In my last post we got into the Christmas spirit by imagining what it would be like to have an advent of our own…...
Advent isn’t a word we normally use. It means the awaited arrival of something momentous. Traditionally, the Church calls the period leading up to Christmas, the Season of Advent. So, what if this Christmas you can experience an advent of your own? A momentous arrival...
Leadership for me is more about the sort of person I am and how I respond to life and opportunity than what I know. Leadership springs from within. It’s about who I am as much as what I do...
Scripture tells us, “Our life is lived by faith. We do not live by what we see in front of us.” (2Corinthians 5:7) I would add to that, “… or by what you feel”. We live in the day and age of feelings. Feelings rule us....
The Rolling Stones sang: You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, well, you might find You get what you need I’ve found this to be particularly true of following Jesus… Eugene Peterson observed that Jesus, “doesn’t say the same thing to everyone, but he does...
I recently had coffee with a pastor who was bemoaning the fact that his congregation was stuck in the doldrums. He complained to me about their absence passion and lack of motivation which he blamed this on busyness and the lack of margin in their...
Walter Brueggemann, eminent Old Testament scholar wrote, “The Christian life is not an accomplishment or an achievement, it’s a gift by the one who is able to give good gifts.”The thing is, this all depends on us conceding that everything originates with and is initiated...