The other day, I noticed that the mall had put up some Christmas decorations by the main entrance. I was shocked. Well, not really. After all, the Christmas lights I saw were crescent moons and stars. Around here, you don’t hear Christmas music when you go into stores to shop. You don’t get Christmas music…
All I want for Christmas is… How would you answer this question? I know, I know, if we are asked this we all tend to give some noble answer. I want peace on earth goodwill to men. I want our troops to come home. I want to be able to end hunger. Or extreme poverty.…
Before you can even begin the veggie challenge, something else needs to happen…
I have a dragon in my garage. No really, I do… really… I’m not lying.
What is obviously, blatantly true with regards to phone games and classroom decorations is just as true with other things for which people are deadly serious. Honestly, fifty years from now it won’t much matter which… person… is elected president in the coming American election.
It is a simple truth that the higher one gets, the more they can see. This is true whether you are in the center of a city or the middle of nowhere… But what does this have to do with me?
God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial. If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together. The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment. Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot…
What makes me tick? What are you passionate about? What do we do when these things seem like polar opposites?
Am I a sanctuary? Am I a place of refuge? When people come to me can they find safety from the harsh and hostile world or am I part of the problem?
No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
THE RIVER WALK 