Experiencing God as Father
TRYING TO DESCRIBE the Trinity is something of a loser’s game. After all, how can you explain the inexplainable? How can you put into words something…
The impossible gap
FOR THOSE OCCASIONS when I’m tempted to start thinking that I am doing pretty well in the living-a-godly-life department, a couple of verses from the apostle…
Who, what, where, when, how and whine
ONE OF THE things that drew me to a career in journalism was its role in championing the underdog, the tilt toward “comforting the afflicted and…
Ring a bell?
MUCH OF THE time, I like to think of myself as an affable sort of chap, not likely to get too bent out of shape about…
The waiting father
COUNTLESS WORDS HAVE been written down through the ages to try to convey the heart of the gospel, but it has perhaps never been better captured…
A weapon of mass distraction
FROM FLAGS ON the battlefield to cyberspace, communication has always been important in wartime. Soldiers need to know where to go and what to do. That’s…
Discipleship in a nutshell
A FEW YEARS back, Stan Guthrie wrote a book called God’s Story in 66 Verses: Understand the Entire Bible by Focusing on Just One Verse in…
Facing down failure
ONE OF MY first experiences with the deep shame of failure was when I got dropped from the starting lineup of the youth soccer team. As…
Baby steps at bedtime
SOMETIMES WE make things harder for ourselves than they need to be by filling in the blanks where the Bible leaves some space. Take the admonition…
When your kids tick you off
COMMISERATING recently with a friend over some struggles with one of his children, I was reminded of a book I have long wanted to see written:…
