Today my hero ran her way past the kind of personal milestone that most of us can only wonder about.Shauna, my wife, the love of my life, banged out a ten kilometre run this morning. To put this into proper perspective, four years ago she was just over two hundred and...

THIS NEXT SUNDAY’S SERMON, IN A NUTSHELL

CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER VERSION* I used http://www.wordle.net/create to come up with this image. You just type (or paste) in a bunch of text and it generates random images based on word usage. The words you use most are the biggest; the words you use least, the...

SPAM

Every time I click “get mail” on my laptop, I watch my junk mailbox counter jigger it’s way into the dozens. It’s like a forty car pileup on the freeway that gets miraculously rerouted into the ditch before it can do any damage. My Mac is good...

Squeezing

My wife Shauna is a squeezer.Tonight we were celebrating sixteen years of wonderful marriage by enjoying dinner and an early showing of The Time Traveller’s Wife. Yeah, it’s a chick flick—but I liked it. I like anything that helps people take a deeper look...

Gimme Jesus, or give me death

Yesterday I tried to ground us in what the scriptures teach about spiritual warfare by unpacking Ephesians 6:10-18. You oughta read that post before you pick through this one. Okay?Okay. Paul now spends considerable detail on the armor itself. This means the details...

Dealing with the devil

This morning I reflected again on the hijinks of our spiritual enemy, the devil, and felt a prompting to share some of the insights I’ve gleaned through my years of ministry—especially from that classic passage in Ephesians 6:10-18. I should say right now that...