The Enemy of My Enemy is My God
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Sleek” is a double-edged sword of a word. It can be used as a backhanded compliment to say “You’re slick” (as a used-car salesperson). Or, it could be used to…
Contemplating the End Zone? Act like You’ve Been There.
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) We’re all born with gifts. How we use them testifies to our character. No need for boasting, as Mom always told us. That’s what we do when we feel our…
Treasure Buried Beyond Sunday’s Excerpts
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) This Sunday’s readings seem tailored to appeal to the selfish among and within us. We’d be wise not to read them that way. They seemingly dangle wisdom before our eyes…
Growing Into Our Married Name
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) It seems impossible for us modern humans to live up to the meanings of our given names. But think how hard that must have been for the gospel writers. Matthew…
God’s Love Goes Nuclear
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Love is not just a feeling. It powers our very being. It motivates us to ensure someone else’s good. Love is God in action, and it’s as reactive as a…
Caesar’s Wasteland is a Losing Gamble
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “What gives you the right to preach to me about God?” That may have been the thinking of the hackers who last month took down the Brothers in Christ website…
Praying Into Thin Air
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Life is like climbing a mountain. It’s an arduous experience, but it gets us to our goal. Our REAL challenge is deciding what that goal is. Is it to reach…
The Battle to End Our Wars
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the LordHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are storedHe hath loosed the fateful lightning of…
Why Do We Worship Monstrous gods?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” This quote opens the movie “Oppenheimer.” It offers…
Finding God between Life’s Ticks and Tocks
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A little movie called “The Hiding Place” was released for a limited run in the theaters last month. This stage-to-screen production of a book of the same name by Corrie…