Loneliness and the Screen
Kenny Goubran, a freshman at New York University, made this provocative statement as he read “The Future of Loneliness,” an essay in The Guardian: “Loneliness, in a way, is not
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Small Is Big
A couple of days ago, I saw the movie The Glass Castle, based on the best-selling book. The story tracks the trajectory of a family from the viewpoint of the
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What Would Happen to the World if…
People kept their promises. What would happen if men kept their promise when they told a woman they loved her, and vice versa? What would happen if we really meant
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If You Start Fast, You End Up Slow…
And if you start slow, you end up fast. This isn’t always true, but it sometimes is. I’ve been encouraging some young adults in ministry this week. Numbers are strange
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You Are All Alone…
In one of our groups, we are reading again the book of Lamentations–not the cheeriest of the books in the Bible. Some of the people in the group are currently
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Why Do You Keep Saying…
…Things Are Upside Down? “These people who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” Acts 17:6 Jesus was sort of upside-down. The last will be first. We
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Stop To Start
If there isn’t a God, we better fret and worry and expend all our energy figuring out what to do. But if there is a God, perhaps the most important
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No Time To Stand And Stare
My mother used to recite the lines of a poem when we needed to stop and enjoy. It went like this: “What is this world if full of care, we
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No One Will Ever Complain
“No one will ever complain if you stop your sermon five minutes early,” my wife used to tell me. I was at a meeting of pastors recently where a series
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Losing The Flavor
You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Matthew 5: 13 NLT The elevator door opened and the smell of
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