Clean Garage Floors & Cleaner Hearts

There are two kinds of people in the world: the ones that keep an immaculate garage and the ones (like me) that don’t. My father-in-law happens to be one of those keepers of a spotless garage. I remember visiting his home in Florida during college and being awestruck at how clean he kept his garage […]

The Mystery of the Word

Genesis begins with God speaking the world into existence… “Let there be…” The Gospel of John echoes the story of Genesis in it’s first line: “In the beginning was the Word.” Somehow, before the creation of everything, there were the Words of God. Norman Maclean, in his novella A River Runs through It, writes that […]

It’s Tough to Get the Theme When You Don’t Know the Story

I was at a training session several years ago at a local church to talk with small group leaders about the spiritual disciplines. For one activity, I asked them to sketchthier favorite scene from the Biblical narrative. As the group began to share their chosen moments, I was a little taken back. One very sincere […]