Faith

Truth Is Stranger than Fiction

“You have got to be kidding!” How many times have we said that? What we mean is that something is out of the ordinary. It’s beyond belief. It simply boggles our ...

What’s Going On, God?

It’s when we begin beating our head against a brick wall that we realize the truth of our situation. There’s nothing we can do to change the facts of life as we know it. We want to slam our ...

Castaway Redeemed

Castaway has two meanings. Merriam-Webster tells us that a castaway object has been thrown away. It’s rejected as something unwanted or of inferior quality. However, Webster’s also tells us ...

Setting the Stage

Grand stage productions don’t just happen. Visit Broadway, and the lights flash along the street, drawing us in. Inside the theaters, we find glamour and polish. Nothing is left undone. When the ...

Putting God into Our Circumstances

The circumstances make the man. We’ve heard that before. It’s part of the argument of nature versus nurture. Are we born into what we are, or does our upbringing dictate what we become? In ...

Finding Our Heart in Cana

Galilee is one of the most beautiful places on the eastern border of the Mediterranean. In the time of Jesus, it was ruled by one of Herod’s sons. It was a hotbed of social dissent and economic ...

Pulling Up the Anchor

A ship in the ocean needs to be able to move freely, or it will never be able to reach its destination. It also needs to be able to drop anchor, to remain fixed in one location, so that it’s not ...

What Makes Our Heart Melt?

Chocolate has interesting properties. It’s rigid at room temperature, yet warm it just a bit, and it loses all form and shape. Chill it, and it becomes brittle and is easily shattered. Take a ...

Angry at God

God isn’t fair. Sometimes we feel that way. We do our very best, everything we know to do, and still it seems it’s not enough. As a young adult, we attend Sunday school faithfully, searching ...

Our Cable-Stayed Faith

We’re like the Golden Gate Bridge. How, some might ask. How can any of humanity, much less the Christian, compare to that magnificent edifice that spans the waters of the Golden Gate Channel and ...

Our Place by the Sea

We see things differently when we’re at the sea. The waters calm us when the winds are gentle, and in the thrashing storm, we see a power greater than we are. We sense the awesomeness of our ...

Living in Caesarea

Powerful people like to have their name up in lights. It’s not a 21st century phenomenon, either. World rulers have expressed their vanity in the most public ways possible for thousands of ...

Live in the South, Georgia or Texas. Try Key West. Leave your car outside in the sun, and after only a few years, the paint will begin to fade and chip. We need the sun to survive, but in the worst ...