First published November 21, 2012. “I need your help again,” I told Nehemiah. “I’m having a really hard time with Thanksgiving.” “Levites,” he said. I think that’s what he said. His mouth was full of early pumpkin pie. He finished his bite and took a sip of coffee. “Go find a Levite. They know all […]

This is for the people who are struggling with Thanksgiving Day. The rest of you can move along. There is nothing here to see. Jesus stood on the hillside with five barley loaves in his hand. It wasn’t an armload of bread. A kid was able to carry them easily on a long walk, five […]

Joseph handled the bad news as well as could be expected. He had been betrayed by his betrothed. No one would expect him to go ahead with the marriage now that Mary was pregnant. It had been generations since anyone had followed the letter of the Law, which was good for Joseph. His heart was […]

Because I think he was a planner, I want to see Joseph’s journal. The one where he wrote out his goals for that year. You know. The year when his life went off the rails. I want to see the journal where he laid out his goals in good Dave Ramsey fashion, with his spiritual […]

I like watching “The Amazing Race”. I’m not sure why. I suppose it’s a guilty pleasure kind of show. I know that there is nothing real about racing around the world with camera crews and having cross-cultural experiences that are staged and sanitized. Kind of like knowing that a McDonald’s hot fudge sundae isn’t great […]