A Georgia judge ruled yesterday that a 103 year-old woman and her 83 year-old daughter were to be evicted from their home because it foreclosed, so he sent the sheriff department out to do it.  But, the sheriff department couldn’t do it, and neither could the movers.  So they left.  And after receiving pressure from [...]

We were not meant to live as self-reliant, independent operators.  Yet many of us choose to live this way because we are afraid of vulnerability.  Being known scares us.  Admitting feelings or failures shames us.  Somewhere, life taught us that openness was dangerous, so self-protection becomes huge.  Fences and defenses keep people at arms length.  [...]

I hate election season.  I’m not anti-voting, anti-democracy, or anti-American.  I just hate the onslaught of negative media campaigns where political opponents slam, slaughter, and condemn one another.  It’s so bad that my kids have caught on.  We try to out-do one another with ridiculous and hilarious fake smear ads.   On the way to [...]

I recently attended a conference along with 1400 other people where Christian author and social critic, Os Guinness, spoke.  Although I was just one of many in attendance that day, it was as if he was speaking to me.  He said, “In America today, everybody’s speaking and hardly anyone is listening.  Focused attention is rarer [...]

I’ve been away from the blogoshpere for a while.  God had some lessons to teach me firsthand.  Several weeks ago, I received news that a dear friend of my family had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that had spread to her bones.  We were shocked.  And so was she. Jacqulyn had been [...]

In 1974, veteran missionary to the Philippines, Dr. Don Benson and his wife, Alice, stood on a vacant, cactus covered lot and prayed for the birth of a church in the growing northeast heights neighborhood of Albuquerque. The church – called Agape Baptist Church – first met in a home, then a pre-school and finally, [...]

Who’s in charge of your church?  Weird question, I know, but who’s really in charge?  Is it the pastor? The deacon board? The elders? The trustees? The rich old people? The church secretary?  The janitorial staff?  Who’s in charge? You may think this question isn’t very important, but it’s actually one of the most important [...]