Freedom: Confession and Repentance
Having racked up more than a million miles on three airlines, I have met a lot of people on planes. Every single time, our conversations came around to how they weren’t happy in their lives. As I shared that I grew up in a religious tradition that put a lot of focus on guilt, without fail each person […]
Get Quiet to Hear God
The angry noise of our world has become deafening. Would you agree that now is the time for Christians to help lower the volume? We all have painful memories and scars, the result of society’s deterioration of civility, harmony, and even friendliness. As the writer Henry David Thoreau noted more than 150 years ago, “Our […]
Does Church Make Christianity Too Easy?
Jesus clearly said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24). I can be slow to pick up on things. So it has taken me some time to become aware of a nagging feeling in the back of my […]
