Were I to die unexpectedly, and my Spotify playlist to be discovered, what in the world would they think of me? I mean, there’s everything on there from Michael W. Smith to Toto to Aretha Franklin to Electric Light Orchestra…

“He has also set eternity in the human heart …” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). One summer’s day in 1647, in Paris, René Descartes, one of the best-known voices in the history of western philosophy – and the man who coined the phrase,…

I’m seeing a lot of strong public comments being made by which professing Christians are impugning the character of others. The divisions seem to run so deep that we’re talking over each other … and around each other …  but…

Something happened 2000 years ago. Not just something, but someone: Jesus of Nazareth. Since the dawn of human civilization, plenty of people have made plenty of religious claims about life and eternity. Many have claimed to know the secrets to…

I was told by the mission team that recently accompanied me to Armenia that this is their favorite photo of me from our trip. I suppose it captures both our purpose and our joy. After all, we traveled to the…

You’re looking at my view late Monday from the Armenian village of Ujan, about half an hour from Yerevan, where my fellow mission team members and I are building a playground for children. The photo can’t do justice to the…

Three Dog Night sang, “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” I’ve been walking our congregation through the book of Ecclesiastes, and Chapter 4 has confronted all of us with the problem of aloneness. As I looked at…

I’m a big fan of green peas. Even the frozen kind that you nuke for 4.5 minutes right before dinner. With just a little butter on top, they fit almost every plate perfectly. Eileen and Josh don’t share my affinity…

Ephphatha! Even if we could pronounce it correctly, it’d be a strange sound in our ears. But it’s a word recorded in the Bible – so it’s a word that will always matter. In fact, it’s a word that should…

Any couple that has endured the piercing sorrow of infertility knows all too well the feelings of desperation and despair. The pain is real. We as Christ’s body must be full of grace toward anyone struggling with the inability to…