Life is busy and we are often faced with full days of busyness. Not to say that we aren’t accomplishing anything, but how do we endure the daily grind? On a personal level, I usually withdrawal to my home where it is often quiet (at least it was quiet before all four of my grandsons were here
Anger is a funny thing for Christians. We often think that all anger is wrong and sinful. It is not. In Mark 3:3-6, Jesus is angry about the Pharisees (religious authority’s) uncaring attitudes. The key, I believe is to be careful to discern what it is that makes us angry as well as to something pos
It always amazes me that people want to discount the spiritual power of God and put their faith in science. Now, let me say that I certainly believe in science! The more we discover the bigness and complexity of the universe as well as the smallness of all the details knitting everything together
I often say that our faith as Christians is not an individual endeavor but a communal journey. While it is true that we can follow Christ on our own and call ourselves Christians, it is equally true that being made in God’s image, we were created to be relational beings. We find our gre
John the Baptist “prepared the way” for people to accept the Messiah….. God’s Son. Up and to that time individually, people couldn’t get close to God. The New Covenant with God was about to come to fruition….this covenant would now be written on people’s hearts instead
I want to renew a journey through the Gospel of Mark. Mark’s Gospel begins with a quote from the prophet Isaiah that was written some 700 before the birth of Jesus. In this quote the prophet Isaiah predicted that John the Baptist and Jesus would come into this world. So, I wonder, how did the