The TV Can’t Hold Your Hand

From March 2010. It is human nature to look for shortcuts.  We are an ingenious species.  And it is no surprise that as Westerners we are prone to throw money at problems.  But, as in the case of the man ‘lame from birth’ in Acts 3, healing is not offered for money –...

The Box from Nashville

As I post my columns from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette we have reached February 2010. I hear a lot of funny stories about pastors.  Like those hilarious baptism accidents, “colorful” mispronounced words, and the pastor who forgot to turn off his cordless microphone...

“So you’re onboard the Titanic…”

Back in November 2009 this was simply an effort to turn what had become a political issue into a compassion issue. So you’re on the Titanic resting in your first-class cabin. The alarm bells ring. The ‘unsinkable’ luxury liner is taking on water. There are not enough...

Losing Control

I wrote this in October 2009.  In hindsight, I should have put more emphasis on the significance of worshiping within God’s creation – especially in light of what the Western church has morphed into. But then I worry that there are already too few voices standing up...