I think it’s sometimes better to be blindsided than to see it coming. To have the future, your fate, your new life or calling come crashing onto you rather than sitting and waiting and waiting for it to arrive, seeing the rain coming and waiting, seeing that train chugging and puffing and grinding in the distance waiting for it to make its way into the station. Waiting is nuts, especially when there’s not a cotton-picking thing you can do about it. We went through all this last summer, as Marjorie was waiting on this University and that University to decide what she had to do to finish her degree. She made the calls, submitted the applications, did everything she could and meanwhile, we had decisions to make for our family, but … Read entire article »

God can be so…fair at times. Often we accuse Him of being quite unfair–giving good things to evil people, allowing disaster and illness. But other times He does what He’s asked to do in such a fair and even way. You pray for patience, so He lets you practice by raising up infuriating obstacles. Or He does like He did me Sunday. I preached on the Theology of the Cross, the necessity of taking up your cross … Read entire article »

Christ has destroyed the power of death and opened the Kingdom of Heaven. Right? So what does this mean? Death is something that can be destroyed, and the Kingdom of Heaven was not open before. Where did people go when they died prior to Jesus’ death and resurrection? Was Moses in Heaven? What gives? Sometimes you hear the answer that they were in “heaven” already because they believed that the Messiah would come eventually. They had faith in … Read entire article »