The past year has been a season of change. In these waning years of my fourth decade, I’ve watched my father decline in health and die. We’ve closed our older daughter’s high school years and inaugurated her college career. Our younger daughter has blossomed into a distinctive creative force with ideas of her own. My … Continue reading Enchantment: The Shape of My Spiritual Life

It’s a natural question.   “Where are you, God?” It comes to us in the crisis, the moment of pain, the season of doubt and suffering.   When our plans and dreams have been smashed to fragments under the heels of careless narcissists, we instinctively cry, “where are you, God?”  When the people we thought … Continue reading Where Are You, God? (A meditation on Psalm 22)

Have you ever had it happen that just as you are starting to experience some progress in life, then the critics, the mockers, and the underminers increase their sabotage?  Our own growth and development threatens the status quo.  When people are threatened, they push back and seek to undo our progress. This is the kind … Continue reading Don’t Be Afraid of the Underminers (Meditation on Nehemiah 4:1-20)

Every 20 years or so, a game changing productivity book comes along that becomes the gold standard. This is it. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll Consider for a moment the gold standard books of previous eras: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.  Published in 1934, this book was the … Continue reading Read This Game Changing Productivity Book: The Bullet Journal Method

This question recently came in to the church Facebook Page (reprinted with permission of the questioner): There is a new book out by Stephen Hawking. Have not read it but the headline from it is that he says there is no God. I used to have solid faith, but it seems to be disintegrating. Reading … Continue reading Questions for a Pastor: How Do You Answer Stephen Hawking?