Lost and Found

Have you ever come across something you had tucked away some time ago, or thought you had lost and exclaimed ‘There it is!’  It is a good feeling.  This past weekend, I was playing junior lumberjack and clearing some invasive trees in some timber, when I noticed a...

Your Word

When you were a kid, do you recall making promises or sharing something to your friends or siblings, then having to convince them that you were for-real telling the truth?  Maybe you had to say that you were honestly, ‘if your lying-your dying’, ‘as...

I Have Issues

A week from now marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther proposing his Ninety-five theses, which was influential in beginning the Protestant Reformation movement.  We don’t typically use the word theses these days, but it was an academic position against the...

Why Jesus?

Have you ever had anyone ask why you were a follower of Jesus?  Maybe not directly, but you have probably had people ask you questions about your faith, or why you do something the way you do.  Was it fairly easy to give an answer for why you call yourself a...

Empty?

The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:  “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations...