If you look just beyond the crowd of tourists in this picture, you’ll see a set of steps and a small door. The door is locked. From a different angle in the room, you can see a small, high window sharing the wall with the door. The shrine in which we were standing was built…

These questions were asked of us today by our 5-year old grandson. How would you answer them? 1. What does a soldier do?2. Is Memorial Day for Kasmir Pulaski? (Illinois residents will understand this one.)3. Where is heaven?4. What kind of punishment did Jesus get?5. Why can’t I see Him right now?6. Can I have…

My friend’s husband has been gravely ill for months. After a couple of extended hospital stays and multiple surgeries to save his life, he was transferred to a long-term care facility to begin the healing process in earnest. A few days ago, he got sick again – a scary step back into life-threatening illness. Everything…

Saved by faith. Saved for works. Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision, describes the relationship between faith and works in his compelling book The Hole In Our Gospel (Nelson). I expected the president of World Vision to take on the Western church’s blindness toward both the practical and spiritual needs of the rest of…

My parents made me come home from college to participate in my high school graduation ceremony. I’d finished high school a semester early so I could dive into college life, and the thought of getting on a train and heading home for a stupid ceremony commemorating a milestone I’d passed a month earlier really annoyed…

A good percentage of us boomers who came to faith in Christ in our teens are the the Jesus Movement‘s direct offspring. But we know that our offspring are increasingly distancing themselves from the kind of faith practice that grew in the rock-n-roll soil of this hippie-style revival. (Check out the trippy chart accompanying this…