After we decide to make some time, there is a second reason it’s hard to find time to read the Bible. We simply don’t know where to start in this great big book. In the old days, when books were only on paper, the Bible always had the thinnest paper and the smallest print. It […]

Sometimes the reason we are too busy to read the Bible is, quite simply, that we are too busy. For anything. For anything more than we are doing. Because when we have a moment to stop and think, we think of all the things that aren’t done yet. Or all the things that we’ve failed […]

Some of my friends talk about reading the Bible. They use language like, “I know that I should, but it’s hard” or “I can’t figure out how to fit it in.” Some of my friends aren’t worried about trying to figure it out. They use language like, “It doesn’t really matter to today anyway.” Some […]

After my posts about running last week, I heard from my friend James May. He expanded on the idea of needing each other and graciously allowed me to reprint his letter.  I heard an interview on CBC with Zelda Gamson, who was a hard-core addicted smoker. Although she knew it was bad for her, and […]

The other night, our men’s Bible study spent an hour on one phrase. In a paragraph in 1 Peter 3, Peter writes to a group of Jewish Christians exiled from Rome, living in Turkey. He says show “brotherly love.” We don’t always take an hour on one phrase, but it seemed important to talk about what […]