When you start the morning by reading from the book of Proverbs, you can get ambushed very easily. You start thinking about your to-do list, laying out the projects you want to accomplish, feeling pretty good about the progress you are making. You tell yourself that. Then you look down at the open Bible on […]

I have more ideas than good ideas. And I have more good ideas than I have time for. When I was planning a wedding a year ago, I thought it would be fun to have my comments start with A, B, C, and D. And I thought it would be fun to buy alphabet blocks. […]

Most of us don’t read Zechariah. We are to be forgiven. It’s the next to the last book of the Old Testament. It’s got pictures of horses thundering across the earth and horns being smashed and stones with seven eyes and women with wings. It’s got warnings and destruction. If it were a movie, it […]

Last week, I led a graveside service for a woman who had just died of complications from Alzheimer’s. Here’s an excerpt of my comments. More than I ever have, as I reflected on Romans 8 this week, I got a glimpse of God’s deep love and compassion for us. Not in the frequently misquoted Romans […]

I keep having conversations that include, “I know I need to change, but I’m not sure where to start.” It could be about Bible reading or about being a gracious person. It could be about praying or about practicing hospitality. It could be about being compassionate about an annoying but genuinely needy coworker, or about […]