Flawed or fraud?
THIS GUY I know would make every “emerging leader” list around. He has charmed audiences and congregations across the country and around the world. He is…
A tangled tapestry
WHEN I LIVED in Amsterdam, I knew someone who owned one of Corrie Ten Boom’s famous tapestries. The Dutch survivor of a World War II concentration…
A last-place lesson
FOR A WALTER Mitty moment, I could see myself as a hero. But then reality set in, and everyone else saw me as I really was:…
The lost art of waiting
IN A WORLD where we get bent out of shape when it takes more than a few seconds for our favorite website to load, we have…
Two kinds of loss
JUST AS THERE are two kinds of sin, acts of commission and acts of omission, the things you did and the things you didn’t, so there…
The essential oil for marriage
ANYTHING WITH MOVING parts needs some form of lubrication. That’s equally true for marriage, and no, this is not an advert for the “intimate supplies” section…
Through different eyes
AS A YOUNG reporter, I got to interview a group of World War II veterans who had been invited to a preview screening of A Bridge…
John’s Easter egg
JOHN THE BAPTIST would not make a great church planter. He dressed weird. Held his meetings in the middle of nowhere. Doesn’t appear to have taken…
Call me a Pentecrosstal
WITHOUT GETTING hung up on whether it’s a separate experience from conversion, I believe that the infilling of the Holy Spirit is every Christian’s new-birthright. And,…
Thanking a friend
ENGLISH POET Philip Larkin famously wrote that, in one way, life started for him in 1963 (Google his “Annus Mirabilis” for the unexpurgated version). For me,…
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