Sabbath Thoughts

Everybody thinks they know how to fix it. Just get enough of their guys making the decisions, enough of their rules being enforced, and things would...

We forget that, sometimes. It's easy to think of growth as visible, obvious, easy to point to and say, "There it is." But it's not. We see the...

Before we say goodnight to Prim, Mary and I take turns every evening to sit beside her and have "chat time." For about 10 minutes, one of us hangs...

James doesn't have a lot of nice things to say about the tongue. He focuses on its destructive capabilities, calling it "a fire, a world of...

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your...

People talk a lot about "being your best self" and "doing your best work." Those are, in a lot of ways, ideas I can get behind. Solomon said,...

I watched a video of a dad sobbing as he said goodbye to his young daughter and wife as they boarded a bus. They were leaving; he was staying...

Growing up is hard work. I mean that in the metaphorical sense, but also in the very real, very literal sense. You began your existence as a single...

Israel spent 40 years in the wilderness on the way to the Promised Land, and it turns out that that Bible gives short shrift to most of those years....

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the things we have are worth what we paid for them. They're not. They're worth what they can do for...

Two weeks ago, I woke up angry with God. I wasn't proud of it. I didn't want to be angry. But I was. I propped myself up on an elbow and looked...

I saw that phrase on the December 2020 cover of Christianity Today. A giant, cosmic hand reaches out toward a world wrapped in darkness, drifting...

This is the last Sabbath Thought I'll post in 2020. Do you know what that means? …Very little, actually. It's easy to make a big deal about that...

I love words. That's a good thing for a writer to be able to say, but what I mean is, I love what you can do with words. Here's an example. If I...

Earlier this year, my little Primrose went through a particularly rough sleep regression. She had a hard time falling asleep—which meant Mary and I...