Better Things Ahead

In keeping with my tradition of writing a blog post for my birthday, (see here , here , here and here ) I present to you the latest in the ...

As family and friends know, my prolonged blog silence was prompted by the sudden and unexpected death of my dad on April 8, 2010. While vaca...

You know who you are.  When a friend asks you to do something, you immediately check your calendar and figure out when you can negotiate a...

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles - Ephesians 3:1 It's not easy to give up what is r...

Reading through the book of Ephesians, one quickly realizes that Paul has an inspired concern for the Ephesus church; namely that the Church...

The word of God has been so thoroughly tamed that as peddled in the churches there is nothing scandalous, strenuous, or revolutionary about ...

Somewhere in most of our childhoods, we have a recollection of a time where we were criticized for being who we are. (For the less fortunate...

If we're honest, most of us spend quite a bit of our lives avoiding pain. Of course, there's that whole "no pain, no gain"...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about the things that my parents did right (at least from my perspective) as they raised me and my sister. What...

For the past 2 weeks, this blog has been silent. The reason for this is because last Monday, my father-in-law had an unexpected and complete...