On the first Thursday of May, there was a prayer meeting of sorts outside the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Franklin Graham and about a dozen friends gathered on the sidewalk and prayed for five minutes.  After … Read More

Bob Dylan has a famous line in one of his early songs, You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing.  Penned in 1965, this lyric seems quaint in light of … Read More

The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.                                               Ecclesiastes 1:8 I have a friend who is a filmmaker.  Tim makes films for various clients, and … Read More

God must love football because he created so many football players, right?  Or is it soccer or basketball that God loves? The world has gone bonkers over sports and its stars. As one English soccer … Read More

This particular thirty-second timeslot cost a reported $2.3 million, and it may be the least expensive advertisement in history.  At center stage is a football player not even in the NFL, yet furor surrounds superstar … Read More

Does anyone remember Apollo 11?  Do you remember July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong did what seemed impossible?  If you were alive then, do you remember how you felt when he took that one small … Read More

When it comes right down to it, most of the commands in the Bible should either make us laugh or drive us to despair.  The commandment to gouge out my right eyeball when it leads … Read More

Twenty-five years ago, Lisa was pregnant, and we both sensed that life as we knew it had come to an end. Saturday mornings devoted to quiet reading or evenings spent over a candlelit dinner with friends … Read More

I confess to you, so enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did [slavery’s] wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition…. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time … Read More

Thirty years is a long time, and forty-five longer still.  At least it is in dog years or, if you live in California, church years.  It was thirty years ago this month that Santa Barbara … Read More