If Jesus is ‘the way, the truth and the life” why do we so often feel like we have lost our way, become confused and end up just muddling through life?  Perhaps because our enemy wants to take us off the straight path and lure us into a maze.  He beckons us to take our eyes off of Christ, even just for a moment, and look to our own strength, skills and wisdom to .

It was announced today that the solution to the moral mess in the Secret Service is to hire Johns Hopkins University to give them ethics training.  I am trying to imagine what that must look like.  I always thought that our ethics were the outward manifestations of our primary moral convictions. That is, what we do is the product of our character, our beliefs about God and our place in His world. So how do .

The decline of Christian influence in American culture can be traced directly to how we choose to commemorate Good Friday.  Too often we glance at Good Friday just long enough to remember the cross and sigh at the thought of the suffering savior, then move quickly to focus on the more joyful scenes of Easter Sunday.  By doing so we reduce the passion of Christ to a momentary blip on the journey from Palm .

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2Co 5:17)  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope (1Pe 1:3) There is an amazing moment in the movie The Passion of the Christ.  To me, it makes the entire movie worth watching just for this .

“I don’t despise religious people. I despise what they stand for… Mock them, ridicule them in public.” – Richard Dawkins, speaking about people who believe in God (Reason Rally, March 24, 2012) “Love your enemies and pray for them.”  Jesus, speaking about all humanity. (Matthew 5:44)   In a world desperately in need of love, forgiveness, compassion and peace, who will you listen to?  Who will you follow?  

Things have to change.  The world is a mess, people are frustrating, and life in general is not turning out like I planned.   So I knelt down to ask God to start changing things.   I prayed, “God change my job so that I might be more successful”; God answered, “I will change you so that you will do all things in my name and find satisfaction in place of success.”   I prayed, .

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! (Phil 4:4) Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1Th 5:16-18) If there is one command in Scripture that seems significantly challenging at best, and downright impossible at worst, it is this command to ‘rejoice always’ and ‘give thanks in all circumstances’.  The terms ‘always’ and ‘all’ are unequivocal.  I .