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It’s a familiar part of the Christmas story. In Luke 1,  Zechariah is told by the angel, Gabriel, that his wife Elizabeth would have a child. This proclamation was surprising because Elizabeth and Zechariah were infertile and had been praying for a child for years. Now, past the normal age of child bearing, the couple…

This will go down in history as one of the most unique Good Fridays we have ever experienced. We won’t be able to go to a church service. We won’t sit in the pew and contemplate the value of Christ’s sacrifice. We won’t engage in corporate repentance. No, this year, we will sit in the…

Where is God when it hurts? This is the title of one of the many Philip Yancey books I read years ago. And today I am thinking about this title again. Friends of mine have a teenage son who just had 6 hours of surgery to remove bone cancer from his arm. Their family is strong in…

Today is Good Friday and some of us may feel as if life is lived in a perpetual Good Friday mode. Like the movie, Groundhog Day, it seems we are replaying the same bad day over and over, fighting despair and struggling. Disease, broken relationships, prodigal children…the landscape looks bleak and can easily lead to despair. Good Friday…
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