Some people simply don’t believe God exists. They go on their way through life making the best choices they can based on their own sense of right and wrong and what’s good for them and those they love. Some people frequently and vehemently declare God non-existent, but in reality, they do believe God exists. They believe God has hurt them,... READ MORE >
Til the storm passes over,Til the thunder soundsno more,Til the clouds roll foreverfrom the sky,Hold me fast, let me standIn the hollow of your hand;Keep me safetil the storm passes by. The thunder and lightning clashed and flashed concurrently last night. The storm was almost directly overhead. It was dark, well after midnight. The wind raged through the trees. But... READ MORE >
While in Haiti a couple weeks ago, I visited my friend, John, at home. John’s family lives in the cinder block home his mother built just before she died in December. John shares the home with his older sister and her two boys, and with his older brother, a severe diabetic. The home is unpainted. There are block walls surrounding... READ MORE >
“A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that may in fact be true; a person or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” That’s how a dictionary defines the word “paradox.” To say, for instance, that Haiti, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, is a country full of unlimited opportunity with no possibilities is a paradox. How can... READ MORE >
Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour Saturday night! The hour you lost in the spring you get back in the fall. It seems like a real gain…but it isn’t. No matter how you label the hours, there is only so much time. Twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, 52 weeks in a year,... READ MORE >
There seems to be great cause for anger these days. Offenses flow like water from a fountain and anger rises in responses. Have you ever watched a storm gather on the lake and make its way landward, or come coursing over the brow of the ridge above Grand Marais and blow its way into town? At first the clouds can... READ MORE >
Philippians 2:5-7 (ESV) Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. Haitian school children must pay to go to school.... READ MORE >
I have known people in my life who have experienced great disappointment with God. They tell me they prayed, asked God for something important to them, and never heard from him. In their disappointment some of these people have taken the position toward God they think he has taken toward them: indifference. Perhaps you know someone who has had this... READ MORE >
A young lady I know recently posted on Facebook her displeasure with an unexpected glitch in her school schedule. A class she anticipated taking first in the day was scheduled later in the day, and the class she anticipated later in the day was scheduled first. Her words? “I’m bummed.” My words to her? “Perhaps this is a good time... READ MORE >
“Seeing is believing,” the old adage says, and that may work for science and skeptics, but in the faithbased life, the opposite is true. Believing is seeing. She was an elderly Haitian lady whose eyes had succumbed to age and the rigors of living in poverty in the poorest nation in the world. She came to the medical clinic led... READ MORE >
