Finding Peace in the Delays: How God Teaches Us Through Life’s Smallest Moments
For years, I expected biblical lessons to arrive with thunder. I suppose Scripture trained my imagination that way. The sea parts. The mountain shakes. Fire falls from heaven. Walls collapse. A voice comes booming out of somewhere that would make even…
The Hilarious Truth About AI World Domination (And Why the “Loading Wheel” Will Save Us)
There is a persistent fear that artificial intelligence will someday take over the world. I have concerns. Not about the takeover. About the efficiency. Before AI starts rearranging civilization, assigning us numbers, replacing governments, or deciding…
What Cancer and Aging Taught Me About the Man in the Mirror
For the past few years, I have not particularly enjoyed the mirror. Every morning there it was waiting for me while I shaved, offering an unrequested inventory. Wrinkles. Worry lines, aptly named. Gray in the beard. Less hair, although I have taken…
Beyond the Title: What the New Testament Actually Says About Elders, Deacons, and Preachers
Give us enough time and we will put a title on nearly anything. Then we will print it on a door, put it beneath a name, perhaps embroider it on a shirt, and before long somebody will begin protecting the title more carefully than the work that came with…
The Evolution of a Writer: Discovering That Writing Is No Longer a Test, But a Way of Seeing
When I first started writing in earnest, and yes, I do understand the importance of being earnest, much of it came from emotion. Sometimes entirely too much emotion. A memory would open and there it was. Not a gentle knock. More like somebody had popped…
Where Did I Put That Box? The Exhausting, Humorous Reality of Unpacking After a Move
I have been gone since the 9th. Not missing. Not kidnapped. Not living under an assumed name in another state. Just busy. There is a difference, although at my age the distinction occasionally becomes blurry. The last few weeks have involved moving,…
Why Taking Kids to the Doctor is Actually an Extreme Sport (And Other Parental Truths)
Nobody tells you that taking a child to the doctor requires the same planning as crossing a small mountain range. You do not simply put the child in the car and go. No. First, you must locate the insurance card. Then the child’s insurance card. Then the…
Retiring From Work, Not From Purpose: Embracing the Call to Teach and Serve
I can retire from work. There will come a day when I no longer clock in, no longer work the long nights, no longer answer to schedules, reports, alarms, meetings, and the endless machinery that keeps a working life moving. I can retire from a job. But I…
Plant-Based Eating Undercover: A Humorous Look at Kitchen Compromises and Family Food Rules
The Kitchen Border Wars There are international borders with less security than the ones running through my kitchen. No one has painted a line down the middle of the floor yet, but give us time. Somewhere between the refrigerator and the stove lies a…
Before the Beginning: Exploring the Eternal Nature of Jesus in Scripture
Genesis opens before there are cities, nations, roads, houses, or even a human being to look toward the heavens. “And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”Genesis 1:2 The Hebrew word used here רָחַף, rāḥaph. It carries the idea of…