Last Saturday I enjoyed one of my favorite events of the year; the annual Christmas tree hunt.  We are fortunate to have a great tree farm about 30 minutes away.  The owners go all out to make it a family experience, including rides in a hay truck out to the...

I just took a long walk on a crisp autumn morning and thought through all of the blessings in my life.  I ran out of walk before I ran out of thanks.  For many of us, giving thanks this week will be as easy as having a second piece of...

I am yielding my blog today to my friend Jon Lewis. He recently wrote the following letter to NPR regarding a segment on the responses to the affair and resignation of General Petraeus. His words are important and timely for us as believers who hold to a different model of...

I was recently completing an on-line survey produced by a major US university (name not important) when I came to a page that stopped me short.  It was simply titled, ‘Gender’. What caused a double-take was the answer options – Male, Female, Other.  Other? I looked again, wondering if this...

The 2012 election will be remembered in history for many reasons, and I would like to submit one for your consideration. This was the election of evangelical disengagement.  Simply put, we didn’t much matter. Our core kingdom values were trampled on and we sat on our hands.  Regardless of what...

Our third meditation on this text considers the emphasis, “why have you forsaken me?”  If we are honest, this is the version with which we most closely identify.  It is not just the forsakenness, or the fact that it is happening for some reason, or even that it comes from...

We are looking at the different interpretations of this text that come from the way the key words are emphasized.  In the first blog we looked at, “why have you forsaken me?” and we contemplated the purposes of God.  Here we will look at, “why have you forsaken me?”  This...

Have you ever played the game where you take a simple sentence and see how the meaning changes when you change the emphasis?  Start with, “Why did you eat that apple?”  Now read it as, “Why did you eat that apple?” or “Why did you eat that apple?” or “why...