The story of the gospel is one of tension that makes no sense outside of the resurrection. We are now several weeks out from Easter Sunday. How many of us still live as if our lives depended on its veracity? A few weeks ago my house was robbed. This is not one of those anecdotal...
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The Gospel calls us to remove ourselves from comfort to face the reality of life as a member of the body of Christ. Flying with a toddler is stressful. In a months’ time I did it four times, so trust me on this. There is a tangible tension as a toddler enters the boarding area....
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We live in a noisy world. A soundtrack of competing commercials and conversations, a cacophony of messages that form and reform our attention and desires. The high velocity noise of the TV, the Internet, and our culture at large always hurtling toward the next big thing. The message in the midst of all the noise:...
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I have always been vaguely aware that the four weeks leading up to Christmas were called Advent. As a child I relished opening the door of the cardboard calendar to retrieve my daily chocolate-like substance, but thinking of Advent as a season is new to me. I grew up in Colorado in the Evangelical Covenant...
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“What a cute baby!” the middle aged woman exclaims. “Are you babysitting her today?” I smile politely and shuffle my daughter from one arm to the other. No, I respond, I don’t babysit her – I’m her father. This is a sentiment I encounter nearly every time I venture into public with my child. People...
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