DYING FOR PRIVACY

Privacy Kills Somewhere between four & five thousand healthy American’s die annually from choking on food, which means it kills more people than accidental shootings or airplane accidents. It’s number four on the National Safety Council’s list of death caused by “unintentional injury”. Somebody chokes to death every 2 hours, and over 95% of them … Read more

Footsloggers

Jesus walked a lot. The only record we have in the gospels where Christ made use of public transit was on His way to Bethlehem (in utero), and again at the end of His life when He rode into Jerusalem in similar equestratorial fashion*. Other than that, He walked. Everywhere. From Nazareth to Jerusalem, then … Read more

It Depends On The Cells

Once upon a time, you were small. Very small. Nearly invisible. Almost as tall as a poppy seed, in fact. Your whole body, from top to bottom, used to be no more than two cells wide. But those two cells were healthy and active, and they multiplied. And they multiplied again. And then they multiplied … Read more

PULLING YOUR WEIGHT

In November of 1988, a baby boy was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and hardly anyone knew about it. His parents named him ‘Hafpor’. Thirty years later, he stands at 6’9”, and weighs 440 pounds. Hafpor Julius Bjornsson is currently designated the world’s strongest man. If you’re unfamiliar with what that means, let me spell it … Read more

Staying Home

Before Jesus ascended, He left His men with marching orders. In giving those orders, He made it clear to both the devil and His disciples what He intended to accomplish from afar. He intended to build His Church, just like He had always said, through willing men & women for centuries to come. Only now, … Read more

Warming Center

“From whose womb comes the ice?” God asked somebody that question a long time ago, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve recently been asking the Lord if He has an answer. The historic cold front we experienced two weeks ago introduced many of us to cooler temperatures than we’ve ever felt in our entire … Read more

A Chance to Love

Does love come easy? Should love come easy? No and no. It doesn’t and it shouldn’t…of course not. Right? We’re smart people; we know this. Love takes work, love is “tough”; love hurts! There’s nothing easy about it! Every good Christian knows that Jesus Christ is the epitome of love, and His whole life shows … Read more

Looking Back to See Ahead

3 Hours & 28 Minutes. That’s how long you spent standing in the bathroom brushing your teeth in 2018 (if you’re an “average” person). Average people like you invested nearly 3 ½ hours of the past year in cleaning their fangs twice a day for roughly 2 minutes each time. You might’ve been a little … Read more

The Replacements

When I was a boy, names like Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, and Dan Marino were hard to avoid. Kids like me pretended to be guys like them at recess. They could run & catch & throw a football like no one else on the planet, which made 1987 a memorable year in my childhood, not … Read more

Nodding Off

I was once (and ever so briefly) part of a ministry that did some work in California. Years ago, a team of volunteers (myself included) travelled out West together in a great big, 72-passenger school bus, with only one of us in the entire group who was legally qualified to drive it. His name was … Read more