Not what I signed up for

Have you ever started out down a path, thinking it was a good direction to go, only to find out (later) that it had a ton of unadvertised requirements? Maybe if you’d know about all the consequences up front, you’d have made a different choice? That moment...

The Bible isn’t a Fairy-Tale

Although it can seem fantastical when you read.  Especially in the Old Testament.  Giants, floods, resurrections, skeleton armies…  It reads like a high fantasy story, not the word of God’s word.  It’s really important for the...
Offering of Thanks

Offering of Thanks

If you want to focus on thanksgiving in the month of November, here’s a fun little activity for you. Based on a tradition that my family has done for decades (see the cute little booklet my mom sent me), each day establishes a “thankfulness price”...

Being respectable and still dead wrong

The Pharisees are the religious leaders we love to hate.  In the gospels we see them time and again pitched against Jesus and the side of truth and good. But let’s stop for a moment to regroup. Yes, history paints the Pharisees in a bad way.  But in...

choose passwords with spiritual benefits

It is an unfortunate side effect of our modern era that nearly everything you do requires a password.  I just checked my password manager and it is presently remembering 308 online passwords for me.  My guess is that you probably have over 100 that you have...