February 3rd, 2015 
When asked by a teacher of the law, “Which is the quintessential commandment?” Jesus didn’t stop and think about it. He quoted directly from the Old Testament, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
This call to love far exceeds emotive sentiment.
When Jesus included the word ALL—all your heart, all your soul, all your …
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January 27th, 2015 
“The key to the Christian life is to abide.” A certain haze surrounds this idea, because we don’t use that word abide in every-day conversations, so we’re unclear as to what it means. The fog thickens when the goal we aspire to sounds foreign to us.
Theologically speaking abide means, to experience unbroken fellowship with God, but lexically it simply means, remain.
At the point of your spiritual birth, you were …
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January 20th, 2015 
I’m reading thru the bible this year with my church. So of course, we start in Genesis. The know-it-all part of me thinks, “I’m already familiar with Genesis; I’ve read it a bazillion times.” The can’t-wait-to-learn-something part of me jumps in with great anticipation.
One night, reading in Genesis 24, I find the familiar story of Abraham sending his servant to get a wife for Isaac. The character of this unnamed servant begins …
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January 7th, 2015 
“Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16
This is the theme I’ve chosen for 2015—making the most of every opportunity.
With 365 days in the year, and already a few consumed, what will I do with these days? Goal oriented, and often tunnel-visioned, I routinely shut out the world around me, and zero-in on …
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December 16th, 2014 
It all started so innocently. An inspiring tale of a generous soul, who would steal into the wintry night and secretly toss bags of cash into windows, the recipients too poor to have dowries. The legend of Saint Nickolas began.
So, how did we stagger so far and end up with the larger-than-myth Santa Claus? How did the paradigm of clandestine generosity morph into the progenitor of holiday indulgence?
This red-suited …
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