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Over the last several weeks, my church has been going through the book of Revelations. (Nice light subject matter, right? :-P) A couple weeks ago, we were studying Revelations 16, where angels are pouring out “the bowls of God’s wrath” upon mankind. Now, we don’t necessarily like to think of God’s judgement, or the suffering […]

Today, I read the story of a young American whose body had been recovered from Haiti, a seminary student who had been helping at the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys when the earthquake hit. A cried a little bit, overwhelmed not just by the tragedy, but by the beauty of what he had been doing […]

Every now and then a passage of Scripture sneaks up and smacks me upside the head, hits me in a way that I never saw coming. It happened today with Matthew 27:11. Pilate is questioning Jesus, and asks, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Now, in the predictable, oft-read and oft-quoted NIV, Jesus replies […]

I’m one of those people who likes to understand things. Not just know the commonly accepted answer and be able to parrot it back–to actually get underneath the hood of a concept and become intimately familiar with how it works. (Which is, incidentally, why I struggled so much with math. I didn’t get it, and […]

God is chasing me. I know this, because everywhere I turn, I am being accosted with the message to press on. (Toward what goal I am not particularly sure, but happily I am one of those people who is pretty content to live “in the journey.” I have lots of practice with that. :-D) Motivational […]