David Watson, President of Asbury Theological Seminary, writing of a recent podcast guest, says this of Ruth Ann Reese, a phenomenal Bible scholar – – – Dr. Reese shares her journey from growing up in a deeply Christian family in…

LAST MONDAY — Rev. John Zehring wrote this — German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in 1938, welcomed confirmands – usually fourteen-year-olds – into the full membership of his congregation. Try to imagine what fourteen-year-olds are like: freshly minted teens who…

“Where your attention goes,” he said, “your attention flows.” I heard Jack Canfield say that in a presentation at The Hyland Center in St. Louis decades ago. It still resonates with reality: “Where your attention goes, your energy flows.” Long…

Fifteen years ago today I started my humble blog. A line from a seminal Pink Floyd album, asking the question that is my title here today, was the point those fifteen years ago. I wondered that then. I wonder that…

With gratitude to Courtney Carver for this — Try a Little Saturday.  Little Saturday is a restful practice available to everyone. — If I may cite an old Led Zeppelin line, it comes “from the land of the ice and…

Kalen Dion wrote — Some people will meet you at rock bottom with a lecture. Other people show up with a ladder. — Kalen Dion ––– “Let us not love with words or speech,” reads 1st John 3:18, “but with…

EXCERPT Think about what it would have felt like to be a fourteen-year-old in Germany in the 1930s as the Nazi party was spewing hate and lies and Adolf Hitler was rising in popularity and power. Rev. John Zehring wrote…

From a great list by Tammy Strobel of ten things to do to deal with stress in simple, healthy ways comes this — Practice gratitude   In my early twenties, I tended to compare my life to my peers. I thought…

Pastor Appreciation Month has become another way some churches approach October. On this final day of this month, I want to make two things very clear: — an extremely loud boisterous raucous and dangerously decibelous Thank YOU to the churches…

Be alert, be present, says God. I’m about to do something brand-new, God continues in Isaiah 43:19.It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? God asks you and me in the Message version of our Bibles. There it is! I’m making…