When we're children, we see magic all around us. There's an open door connecting the natural world and unlimited imagination. Then the monsters come- adults projecting their fears, failures, bitterness, hate, unhealed wounds, unmet expectations, unfulfilled dreams, and all the perversions of life they have learned from the monsters that have gone before them. When …
Becoming Red Cups
The Great Red Cup Debate seems to be dying down, but I'd still like to throw my two cents in. Or in this case, bounce my quarter. The problem is rarely the problem. No, this isn't a corporate snubbing of Christianity, and the idea that the Christian response to an offense (an imaginary one at …
Put Your Hope In God
A friend asked me what my high and low was of my time here in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I know He meant in my experience as a pastor, but I've been in and out of the area most of my life. There are relationships that are very special to me that have grown here over decades. …
Why You Can Rejoice
"After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners …
Faith and Trust
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11.1) Faith is trusting that God is faithful. That sentence has taken me years to write, and I'm still learning. I choose the word "trusting" over "knowing" that He is faithful, because to me, trusting speaks of my heart …
Equip Your Spirit 