“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…”. People in ministry today could relate to this quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Good news stories of individuals growing in Christ are often met with negative elements that hinder the ongoing...
How many times have you thought you saw something, only to take a second look and realize that it wasn’t what you thought at all? I remember when Twila and I were driving across Canada in the summer of '97. On one particular evening in a secluded part of Ontario we...
The other night when I was at the Diner with my boys, the oldest pulls out a fistful of firecrackers, my first response was not a parental, “Where did you get those?” with the accompanying gasp – instead it was an awed, “How many of those do you have?” tinged with a...
There are a variety of biblical metaphors that describe the influence that Christians are intended to have on the world around them. Jesus says that we are SALT and LIGHT (Matthew 5:13-16). He describes us as a LEAVENING AGENT (Matthew 13:33) and Paul says that we...