Solomon, Poster Boy For Grace

Did it ever strike you as odd that God allowed Solomon to succeed David as king? And become an ancestor of Jesus in the process? (See Matthew 1:6) Not only was Solomon not David’s oldest male offspring, he was a child of David’s marriage with THAT woman,...
Work in Progress

Work in Progress

When did you stop making New Year resolutions? For me, it must have been sometime the last 10 years. It must have been a time when life was so demanding that one year just slipped into another. Which is not to imply that I have anything against New Year resolutions....
The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race

There may have been a time when I thought that the Christian life gets easier when one gets older. No longer. I have come to terms that there is no such thing as an ‘easier’ Christian life this side of heaven. Surprise! That’s what Jesus told us:...
The Mary Paradigm

The Mary Paradigm

I was having dinner with some good friends a few nights ago. One of them shared that she was pregnant, her first pregnancy. We rejoiced with her. I marveled again at this experience of bearing a child, an experience foreign to men. A child conceived in love as this...