Severe circumstances and the most tormenting decisions often become matters of life and death to us. They are sometimes exaggerated and sometimes very real. The teen who does not get the right kind of denims considering it a matter of life and death would be an example of the first. The person who does not […]
Most people I know would like to change something about themselves. When I was a young pastor, I learned this full well. I found that the richest people I knew (most of whom were self-made millionaires), the most beautiful people I knew (male and female models and beauty queens), and the most creative and accomplished […]
Habakkuk is a strange text for celebrating Thanksgiving. But, it is the place I always return- year after year- to be mindful of what thankfulness consists. To summarize the prophets narrative it flows simply. First, he called upon God to do something about the evil around him, about people behaving poorly (1:1-4). That is not […]