Something about this scene from The Matrix continues to resonate with me year after year. Without rehashing the whole plot, there's a ...

  Poet, philosopher, naturalists, etc., Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." I think...

  "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum...

W hy don't we pray? I have a list of reasons / excuses as long as my arm. Maybe you do too. Today, I was struck with an idea to put into...

I realize, at 49, I'm as old as dirt, but back in my day, it was expected that a professional journalist would report the facts, free o...

M y favorite MLK quote. I pray that all Christians could adopt such a love battle cry as this (thinking of myself as chiefly in need of it)...

L ook, I know that you are not stupid. And I know that you are probably wandering through life, in many ways, just like...

Should Christians be motivated to act, do, and serve…by rewards? Before you answer, disclaimer time! 1) Non Christians do not earn salv...

S trike from your mind any of the negative images connected to the word flood. You might have first imagined the devastating tsunamis in...

Begin Rant Now. Two movies getting a lot of press in Christiandom lately: Noah and The Son of God . I wish the press was better. And I wi...

W hen the Black Plague swept through Europe between 1348 and 1350, it gouged out 30-60% of Europe's population and reduced the world...

My cat Rusty is the perfect footwarmer. And often, Rusty will enter my room while I'm writing, meow once or twice (to announce his comin...

K nowing God Part 3: How well do you know God? In the beginning of this series, I confessed that (in spite of the fact that I've bee...