The Basics More often than not, we are dissatisfied with our productions because we either don’t give ourselves enough time, or we don’t constrain ourselves to come up with an idea our time will accommodate. When I feel like time is the one thing I don’t have, I remember a phrase my old Gaffer from [...]
Jesus Christ desires to have a personal relationship with you. This is not a trite truism or tired theology. The concept of a personal relationship with an infinite being is mind bending. No matter how intimately we know Him there is infinitely more to know. He is infinitely personally. He took your separation from God [...]
The holidays reveal the deep seated desire in all of us to belong, to be an insider. Even though for many people the holidays mean reopening some nasty wounds, the drive to belong out weighs routine family drama and sometimes outright abuse. This compulsion has catapulted almost every one of us into some ridiculous positions. [...]
Sometimes we are all guilty of unnecessarily shrouding the most ancient and quite mundane human practice of story telling in a cloak of mystery. There are even those who insist on referring to stories with a proper noun, capital S story, instead of the common noun it is. A story is a simple thing; it [...]
The New World wasn’t new because European culture was “New” to the American Continent. And it wasn’t a “New World” because it was uninhabited, the natives had been living there for hundreds of years. It was New because all those elements had never been together before. It was truly a New World because no one [...]
I don’t believe Jesus is demanding the impossible or referring to our condition in the great by and by when He says “Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect”. Contrary to the idea that perfection is found in absolutely flawless performance, Jesus seems to be saying we are perfect, just like our Heavenly [...]
