I have a friend in Mexico who went on vacation with his family. It happened that when he and his family were at the beach, there were some ladies there also. The ladies were prostitutes. My friend grew up in a rough area in Mexico. He has a heart of compassion and can identify easily [...]
This may be the shortest blog I’ll ever write. No need to spell out “the moral of the story.” I’ll leave that to you. On a beautiful spring day, biking past Central Junior High, I saw a kid wearing a winter hat – one of those big, colorful sock hats with the little ball on [...]
What do you call … Twenty-seven hundred square feet of aged pine? A crumbling foundation that buckles inward like an octogenarian’s knees? Damp plaster expanses with varicose cracks revealing age? Asphalt shingles curled by the relentless heat of the Kansas sun? What do you get when you take an inert structure, fill it with a [...]
Sometimes the topic of a blog seems like something out of left field. You find yourself reading what has been written simply because you haven’t gotten over the shock that the blogger is actually addressing an unexpected topic. You find yourself thinking, “Why has no one blogged about this before?” This isn’t one of those [...]
Most of the thoughts in this blog are originals from your pastors – “out of our minds.” This week I offer you a guest blogger, Sherry Surratt, CEO and President, MOPS International. For a couple of reasons. MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) is a CCC ministry I’m proud of, so this piece doubles worthwhile food for [...]
Sometimes we get the impression from Mathew 5:39 that we are to be passive to aggression. In this passage Jesus said: “But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also” (Mathew 5:39). But his passage is teaching that we [...]
I was 21 when I first heard the words “Zion Passion Play.” They emitted from the mouth of a girl I was just getting to know. As we strolled through the streets of Chicago, she went on and on and on about this play as though it were the single greatest theatrical production in the [...]
Some of us could have predicted that same-sex marriage would eventually become a hot issue, but I, for one, never dreamed that it would become the cause célèbre seemingly overnight. The President, the Clintons, Rob Portman, and even a few self-confessed evangelical Christians like former megachurch pastor Rob Bell have come out in support for [...]
When I was in Bible school, one of the things that we learned in theology class was that the reason we can’t interpret the Bible correctly is our fallen nature. The fall has affected our intellect and our reasoning. While I understand that we are fallen, and I agree that somehow we don’t think well, [...]
Here I sit with two of my favorite things; bright warm sunlight and dark hot coffee. It still seems odd to call coffee “a favorite thing.” For forty-six of my almost forty-seven years I liked only one thing about coffee … the smell. Earthlings breathe 78.09% Nitrogen, 20.95% Oxygen and a .93% cocktail of argon [...]