Heaven and Earth “Will he go to heaven?”  She looked me in the eye and asked me that question shortly after I arrived on scene.  Thirty...

Life is hard and wonderful at the same time. It is a complex tapestry woven with threads of joy, sorrow, triumph, and defeat. From the...

“God, I don’t know.  What do I know?  I know what I’ve learned about You. A lot. All my life. But what do I know? I do know what I see,...

As many of you know already, this happens all the time.  Like earlier this week.  I’m called to a home where a death has occurred.   A...

You may or may not be familiar with the large iconic neon Jesus Saves sign atop the landmark building in downtown Los Angeles (see...

If you are like me, having grown up in church hearing incredible bible stories of God’s amazing feats of power you may have developed a...

If you ever watched the movie Braveheart, you’ll never forget the ending scene where William Wallace (played by Mel you know who !)...

I knew it.  The paramedics knew it.  The doctors and nurses knew it.  The only one who didn’t know it was the father of the nine-year-old...

It changes you.  Hundreds and hundreds of times.  I can’t really count how many times over the past 25 years I’ve stood in the space...

Someone I love is going through a very difficult time.  We all know someone.  It may be ourselves.   We want to pray for God to do...

Nothing comes from nothing.  There must be something before nothing.   Or Someone? Bedtime is often when I face the mysteries of faith. ...

Can you imagine this? Let’s have some fun today.  Maybe you’ve had this wonder which entered your contemplative mind some time in your...

I went to see Lyle Lovett in concert the other night.  He was playing here in town just a few miles from home.  The first time Heidi and...

Over the years, especially the years where I served as a youth pastor, associate pastor and lead pastor in three different churches, I...

Seems to me, looking back in history, every generation has had concerns about their “youth.”  Perhaps it was that the youth of the day...

"Do you have a faith or faith community?” I asked the young woman.  Who gets asked that at 3AM in the morning, right? Someone who found...

God doesn’t stop war from happening. God doesn’t stop from happening cancer, strokes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, birth defects, diabetes,...

While watching a few football games last weekend I noticed that there is yet another Exorcist movie coming out and Hollywood is sure...

There was a time, early in my Christian years after “coming back to the Lord,” where my father had a tendency to apply a bit of cynicism...

It’s ok to wonder about things, right? Some of us, the older we get, find ourselves wondering about things in deeper or new ways unlike...