Jesus has a lot to say about people who are “rich” and people who are “poor.”  In fact understanding what Jesus teaches about the rich and the poor is a vital part of the framework for understanding and living out the Christian life. Unfortunately for those of us in modern

I have some impressive friends. One of my friends has seen a lot of ups and downs in his life – lots of impressive wins and sad losses – but his attitude towards them all and towards life is what impresses me most.  More than anyone I know he exemplifies

For thousands of years humans have sat around camp fires and told stories. In this glowing, flickering light elders of the tribe told stories that were passed down to them as they sat around similar camp fires when they were young.  These stories were passed down this way from generation

I used to think that Jesus was out of touch with his teachings on worry.  I don’t think it is Christian to be dismissive of Jesus, but I do think it is okay to be honest about our disagreements.  God can handle our disagreements.  Disagreeing is something that happens in

Anger has gotten a bad rap – undeservedly so.  Anger, like all other human emotions it is an important gift.  Like all other emotions, it’s how we handle it that makes it good or bad. I’m sure the majority of people at some point have witnessed the damage that out-of-control,

I didn’t write this. Only once before have I posted someone else’s writing, but this was good. It is so good that it was hard for me to read, especially the first part. She is speaking to me and to my experience. It took me a long time to learn

Prayer changes things.  Making requests of God changes how things are and will be. This is the consistent claim of scripture and a concept that we see Jesus attempting to get across to his followers on nearly every page of the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – the parts

No one likes to be condemned or corrected. If you ask almost any group of people what their favorite Bible verse is, and some in the group happen to know a few Bible verses, invariably someone will say something like, “Don’t judge people unless you want to be judged” –

In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Collosae, he seems to have coined this wonderful word “ophthalmodoulia” (see Colossians 3:22).  It is a combination of two words “opthalmos” or “eye” and “douleia” or slave – in other words, “eye-slave.” The short paragraph that he uses it in reads

Perhaps you will remember learning in school about the famed 1925 circus of a court proceeding commonly referred to as the “Scopes Monkey Trial.”  I believe it is the most famous trial in American history regarding whether or not Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution should be taught in public school