We’ve all been there. Life will bring you there again.  Somehow. It’s that place where life itself feels like claustrophobia. It’s that place where there is no way to get THERE from HERE. It is the place where hurdles loom up like mountains. You are stuck. There is no way

The definition of maturity is “a state of being fully developed.”  Perhaps in a biological sense you can mark that place in humans where we can say, “I am now fully developed,” but in every other sense of the word, I don’t know that we ever arrive.  Maturity in every

I have been working as a peacemaker and bridge-builder in racially mixed communities for the last fifteen years of my life. It’s a hard, joyous, beautiful, and messy business. The one place I have found solid ground on, is in the maxim that, “People aren’t color coded.” This means that

There is a class we have begun offering this year at Edgewood Church to teach women how to be safe in the world and help them recover from trauma.  It’s a unique and needed class that I think is doing a lot of good. Cleaning up after the last class,

There is a limiting lie in our culture that hurts both us and our children. The thread of the lie goes something like this, “Infancy, babyhood, childhood, the teen years, and the twenties shouldn’t be taken seriously or treated as overly important. Goof off now, waste now, think of yourself

Towards the end of his ministry Jesus tells this story of a master who leaves wealth and responsibility in the hands of three servants in the form of differing amounts of gold.  Then the master heads out on a journey.  The master was gone a long time, but one day,

Like most humans, there have been times and season of my life where I have come up wanting in the virtues of patience and positivity.  To be honest, I’m still a long way off from having arrived in these categories, but I’m improving. A few years ago I had this

I don’t know where you imagine God is when you pray or think of God, but for much of my life when I thought of God, I assumed that God was distant, far way, removed.  It was more than just a geographical sense or assumption, but a relational one as

A couple of weeks ago after church my family and I loaded up the van and headed out of town for a quick two-day camping trip in the mountains.  As is typical for a pastor family when trying to get out of town on a Sunday, we hit the road

Maybe the “can’t-get-it-together,” doofus dad tropes found in sitcoms and movies over the last thirty years didn’t help cue you in, but present and engaged fathers are super important. In honor of Father’s Day, here are a few positive things to keep in mind about the significance of being a