Evendays

There are at least two "church" sentences that tend to scare me. The first is: "Jesus spoke to me." That one always gets me, not because I don’t think that Jesus can speak to folks, I’m just not sure that he does. An older man from church told me he is writing a letter he [...]

Modern evangelical preaching and movies from Hollywood are not the first to dramatize the cross, of course. Take, for example, the following quote that I ran across recently. It will keep me on the lookout next time I’m in an art museum…
“In some ancient Eastern traditions, Adam was buried on Golgotha and his son, Seth, [...]

Mark 11:11ff brings us the quick, action parable of Jesus cursing a fig tree that was naturally unable to give fruit. The riding-on-a-donkey King, the one who comes “in peace”, then goes to the temple and turns over tables and chairs, chases out sellers AND buyers, merchants and worshippers, and forbids city-dwellers to cross the [...]

Son 1 and I spent last weekend at a retreat center about 45 minutes north of Frankfurt in Germany. He went as a participant, I as the speaker. The theme chosen for the Singles’ retreat was “A life of significance” and the main text that they gave me was the wonderful list of spiritual blessings [...]

Familiarity can kill faith. Hold it. Let’s try again. Expectations that have not been formed by God can kill faith.
Jesus goes to mom’s for the weekend and heads to the synagogue on Saturday. Mark tells us there’s a big crowd come to hear the Rabbi.
They are surprised. “Where did he get his wisdom? [...]

Thank you very much for the comments on welcoming Son 1 back home. I’ve made a few comments on your comments… Wife and I are going to discuss the different suggestions that you made and then fly out the lucky winner. So please don’t make plans, at least any plans you can’t change, for the [...]