Essays

Giving up or giving over

If you have lived very long at all, you have no doubt discovered that there are very few things in life that we can control.…

When the high road hurts

Sometimes the high road hurts, doesn’t it? When I officiate weddings, I often insert a little phrase near the end of my remarks, urging the…

Your personality deficiencies

Every one of us has spectacular giftedness and talent in certain areas of our life. Conversely, we also have corresponding or alternate weaknesses in our…

Which you is the real you?

In a recent driving experience, I was confronted by the conflict between the honest, authentic me and the me that I am trying to become.…

Better by association

In this Christian life of faith, we spend a lot of time trying to become better people. We look at the Galatians 5 list of…

Are we actually protected?

Are we actually protected when we put our trust in God? One of the promises that Christianity asserts is that when a person places his…

The watertight person

Dick Lucas, the longtime pastor of one of England’s oldest churches, St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, has said, “The Bible does not give us a watertight argument…