When I explain the Gospel to someone, I hit on three different questions: What is wrong with the world? Why is the world like that? How can what is wrong be set right? By going through those three questions I can explain the Gospel to someone in under 5 minutes, ...

Oh boy! Have you watched the news lately? There are so many problems going on in this world. Poverty, hunger, sickness, crime, wars and rumors–too many things to mention it seems. Whether at the personal, local, national or international level, many trials and tribulations exist and threaten to poison our ...

We must take stock in all of our darkness in order to embrace the coming light. Let the “Light of Life”, Christ, light your way. With Him comes new life and a new hope. He is the light of an eternal day, absent of any darkness! The light comes to drive ...

In my neighborhood you can always tell when summer starts, it begins as soon as the Jehovah Witnesses start showing up on street corners with their magazine racks. In my neighborhood, which is mostly apartment blocks and a high foot-traffic area, they are on every other block all summer long, ...

Matthew 28:6  “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” Every year about this time, we hear a beautiful Easter message. We listen to the touching Easter songs that are sung, sadly, only at this time of year. If ...

From one extreme to the other. From lifted up to beaten down. From “Hosanna in the highest” to “Crucify him, crucify him.” These are the highs and lows, the ups and downs, that we witness as we walk through this Holy Week with Christ. It began with Palm Sunday and ...

 Quick solutions have been around for hundreds of years.  They promise relief from physical or  emotional pain, or  appeal to our desire to improve our well-being in some fashion. But their consequences often come to light only when it’s too late for a change of course.When we are suffering or ...

Have you ever had someone tell you, when you’re in the midst of complaining about the person who wronged you, “Just let it go.” “But you don’t know what he did to me!” you say. Or maybe it’s, “You don’t understand how humiliated I was when she said that in front of ...

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you.” John 13:34. In life we will come across some people we trust that might betray us. How do we deal with those relationships? Our Lord answered that question in the Upper Room the ...

The arrival of spring is heartily welcomed in Minnesota where winter lingers for almost a half-year. The two-parted whistles from male Northern Cardinals is often heard in the early spring. While lifting my head up to search for the birds, I cheerfully found little buds springing from the tip of ...