Taking the Long Term View

Taking the Long Term View

Barring something more tragic or more spectacular happening, Benazir Bhutto’s face will be the last face that dominates the media this year. “Bhutto, 54, had hoped the huge popular following she enjoyed among the Pakistani poor would propel her to power...
Saving Truth

Saving Truth

I led him to Christ. He let me stay in his house. Twenty years separate the previous two statements. I am in Melbourne to attend son Stephen’s graduation. (Was it only yesterday that I carried him newly born in the Penang maternity hospital?) When Ken heard I...

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It’s hard to believe that the first edition of the Grace@Work ecommentary went out on August 3, 2000. (I have included a copy of that piece below.) Since then it has gone out every week except for two weeks when I was on my honeymoon. As always, the...
Learning from Mary

Learning from Mary

This Sunday I will be preaching on the announcement of the birth of Jesus from Luke 1:26-38. The choice of the topic was, in the end, a no brainer. We just came back from church camp and the leaders wanted some sermons to encourage members to serve. And since it was...
Bloody Advent

Bloody Advent

Reports of killings in the U.S. seem to receive so much more prominence in the media than killings elsewhere. Still, the recent mall killings and suicide in Omaha qualifies as a terrible tragedy by any measure. Here is the Guardian’s report: “The teenage...
Looking for COOI

Looking for COOI

I am at my church’s annual camp. Tonight, during the first talk, my pastor and friend Mark, said that many of us are looking for COOI, the Church Of Our Imagination. It’s the ecclesiastical holy grail, the perfect church where we truly belong.  It’s...