God Talk

Are we willing to pick up our enemy? To love the one who hates us? Are we willing to love the least of these? The great Thomas Paine once wrote: When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails [...]

As Jesus descends from the mountain of transfiguration I wonder how long His three disciples were enamoured by His glow? I wonder how we might have reacted to seeing what the three disciples witnessed? Yet even as I write this I have to admit that most of what is “shiny” about people today catches our [...]

Millions huddled around a glowing object with a group of people moving all around the green turf. No unfortunately the glowing object is not our Lord Jesus during His transfiguration, and the millions are not huddled around witnessing missionaries move about the earth – yes, it is the super bowl! We live in a world [...]

How do we perceive the way in which the world sees us? The answer digs deep into who we think we are. Some years ago five high school kids helped us realize that our being is not defined by how the world sees us. In The Breakfast Club, Brian (the brain, Anthony Michael Hall) states, [...]