Cowboy worship
WHEN IT COMES to singing, I’m a bit like a baby learning to walk: more enthusiasm than dexterity, with a tendency to wobble and fall flat.…
Full nets and empty hands
JUST WHEN I think I may have this following Jesus thing down pretty well, something comes along to remind me that I’m actually rather clueless. The…
Bad bosses and big breastplates
DURING MY FOUR decades-plus career, I’ve had the privilege of working for some bosses whom I would have happily followed to the ends of the earth.…
An Olympic life lesson
SOME PEOPLE MAY wonder why it takes athletes four years to get ready for the Olympics. After all, an hour or so of watching one of…
About those prayers we’d like to be unanswered…
WERE IT NOT for the fact that He is long-suffering and all that, I’d be prone to wondering whether God doesn’t sometimes feel like throwing up…
Guerrilla goodness and infinite grace
WHEN MY KIDS were small, a favorite exercise when we’d drive through a toll booth would be to give the collector some extra money “for our…
Lost between here and there
WE WOULD LIKE to be able to put it down to jet lag, but we were pretty well adjusted, having already been on Pacific time for…
A bargain rack believer
IN CARTOONS, THE internal battle is between a harp-playing angel sitting on one shoulder and a trident-wielding red devil on the other. In my life, it’s…
Sneaky idols
I’VE HEARD A few sermons over the years about idolatry, but it’s always been a bit of a remote subject for me; after all, I don’t…
The Great Air Plant Incident
SO, MARCIA LEFT left me with one thing to do while she was out of town for a few days: be sure to spritz the air…
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