Two weeks ago I attended mandatory Combat Lifesaver skills training…I’m not going to combat…but it was interesting. The training has been updated from years past because of lessons learned from…
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Can you have confidence? Should you have confidence? Is it arrogant? Naive? Unkind? I ask that because in terms of certain things, current culture values uncertainty. To be confident of…
Today, in our Western secular culture, some of the themes from the book of Hebrews, seem to be far from our cultural imagination: temple, covenant, kings, priests, blood sacrifice, atonement,…
I’ve been helping our four-year-old, Shepherd, learn how to ride his bike without training wheels – He’ll get his elbow pads and his helmet on and we’ll go outside and…
Last Fall we baptized a couple of college students out at Terry’s property, in his pond – Terry was gone for the weekend but he let us use his property…
It feels like we’re living in an age of perpetual crisis: the environmental crisis, health care crisis, energy crisis, drug crisis, debt crisis, education crisis, and the marriage crisis. There…
I want you to imagine that you are in a courtroom. You are the judge, you are the prosecutor, you are the jury. The defendant is God. All rise… court…
In 1650 New Amsterdam, (now New York ) crime, disease, disfunction ruled the city. The town had about 200 houses, 1,000 residents and 35 taverns…one bar for every 28 people….
-CHILD DEDICATION -The title, “child dedication” might give the impression that this ceremony of commitment is more about the children than the adults today. -But in fact it is about…
“That’s not nice” parents will sometimes say to their children…or children to other children…often when it is to their advantage. We know what “not nice” is when we see it…sort…
Ideas have consequences. Julian Huxley was a 20th century biologist and atheist…renowned in his day. He was also a proponent of eugenics…the idea that “inferior humans need to be weeded…
Couple of Memorial Day points of interest: -First point: Apparently it is bad form to say “Happy Memorial Day” at least that is what some think. -This is tied to…