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While we might curse the crises that upset our lives and threaten our health, we are nonetheless forced by such problems to go deeper to derive meaning from them in an unstable world. Finally, we may be able to respond as Emerson responded when a man told him that the end of the world was imminent. Emerson calmly replied, “I can live without it.”

G. Scott Sparrow, “I Am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters with Jesus”, Bantam Books, 1995, page 48.

Love, heavenly love, the love which Jesus commands us to love, is not an emotion. Read more…

The cross is not a metaphor; it is the avenue which God chose, and Jesus accepted, to take us into the tenaciously loving embrace of the hands of our Creator. Read more…

Today is Remembrance Day. While always important to me, this year is different. Read more…

If you expect your preacher to present an inspiring sermon then you don’t love her. If the preacher expects the assembled people to pay attention then the preacher does not love them. Read more…