March 13, 2014
Jesus meets us right where we are. He loves you just as you are. Even more so he likes you just as you are. But of course, way too much to leave you just as you are. So when Jesus says, “I have come that […]
January 24, 2014
Jesus promises us “Life”, and he said he meant “Life to the Full.”1 He really did mean this, you know. He wants it for you. And you can have it. But most of us are missing it … all of […]
January 16, 2014
Jack Nicklaus was once asked how he won so many golf tournaments. His answer was something like this: “I realized early on I couldn’t stay hyper-focused on every shot, and that tournaments are won and lost on the putting green. […]
October 10, 2013
The Kingdom of Me pervades our entire castle, so that the rats in the cellar are always at the door, ready to scurry out, as we saw in my Staples Incident. The rats appear in all shapes and sizes, but […]
September 2, 2013
Do you remember the old Tarzan TV shows? The safari crowd is moving through the jungle and suddenly someone steps in the dreaded quicksand. “Don’t wiggle around!” I shout at the TV, because everyone knows doing that will just make […]
September 2, 2013
Satan Strategy Session circa early 1900’s: “Okay demons, I know this sounds too good to be true, but the humans are about to invent something that is going to make our jobs incredibly easy. As a matter of fact this […]
September 2, 2013
A year ago I was in New York listening to Eugene Peterson, author of The Message, talk about how much keeping the Sabbath has transformed his life. He went so far as to say it has transformed his preaching, his […]
September 2, 2013
“The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.”1 Okay, I know you may be irritated – confused – stunned or just plain old bored with my meddling with your Sundays, but in love – and no small […]
September 2, 2013
“Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.” Eugene Peterson After 14 weeks of seeking to understand what “Keeping the Sabbath holy” means, I […]
September 2, 2013
“The Sabbath both dethrones and dignifies us.” Darrin Patrick Last week we talked about Easter, and Jesus defeating self for us, in his Garden of Gethsemane battle. Let’s take this self issue back to our look at the Sabbath. […]
September 2, 2013
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” ― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of Saint Augustine I need more rest. You need more rest. Our culture needs more rest. […]
September 2, 2013
“Watch out! Be on your guard (place a guardrail) against all kinds of greed…”1 We put guardrails up in the areas of our lives where we know we have a weakness. We put guardrails up to protect us from being mastered […]