God and Golden Spoon
Last week I had one of my best prayer times of this whole year—and I wasn’t even praying. God told me to take Amber and Madelyn to Golden Spoon. Actually, it wasn’t quite as clear as that, but the message…
Chris Jackson
Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
Chris Jackson
Strengthening Faith, Love, and Hope
100 Crashing Jetliners
The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program—Week Eleven Chapter Nine: One Hundred Crashing Jetliners “One Hundred Jetliners Crash, Killing 26,500.” That’s the context that Mr. Stearns used to help us visualize the statistics. When one jetliner crashes, killing hundreds, it…
What’s your “style” for connecting with God?
Did you know you have a worship “style” that helps you connect more easily with God? Some people don’t realize that. They think that we all must approach God the same way, using the same prayers, disciplines, and postures of…
The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program–Week Ten
Chapter Eight: The Greatest Challenge of the New Millennium How rich do you feel? Do you feel like you’re in the upper tier of the world’s wealthiest people? According to Richard Stearns’ quote from President Carter’s 2002 speech, “Citizens of…
My Buddhist goal for the summer
I just finished Phil Jackson’s basketball memoir, Eleven Rings: the Soul of Success, and in it he espoused the Buddhist philosophy of learning to live in the moment. According to Phil (who probably knows a thing or two about basketball),…