Deep Thoughts

Below is an article I helped write for author Carl Medearis. For the past 20 years, I've had the privilege of helping lead a delega...

It's funny the things that you remember. I can remember one time when I was a teenager watching an episode of the Montel Williams show. ...

It's nice to see someone in the "lame stream media" finally getting it right on the Israel/Palestine issue. Netanyahu has buil...

I like Tamar. Do you know her story? Let me tell it to you briefly. Judah was one of the 12 sons of Jacob. He marries a Canaanite woman who...

Ever feel like your life is falling apart? I do sometimes, until I go to Starbucks and sip my troubles away with a Carmel Mocha Frappuccino...

This caught my attention. As if we needed another reminder: the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Workers are getting...

A funny thing happened on Easter Sunday. Our son Isaac has this annoying habit of taking his shoes off and throwing them while he's in t...

I didn't expect anyone to actually try to answer the questions I raised in my article "I know that Jesus is the answer, but what do...

Is the gospel about Jesus rescuing us from hell and transporting us to heaven… or is it about Jesus creating a community to work with him in...

My friend Pastor Tim O'Brien sent this to me today. I think it's worth reading: For a long while I have wrestled with the questio...

A friend of mine pointed this out on his Face Book page today. 45.9% of Americans blame Muslims for the Christian immigration out of the H...

I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what to write. I'd like to post a little more often than I have been, but frankly, I'm...

I had been looking for some information on what's happening in the area of Muslim-Christian relations in post-Mubarak Egypt. Lo and beho...

Over the past several months, I've been working on a book that I've been "ghost-writing" for an up and coming Christian a...

I'm glad I'm not the president right now. I can't imagine what it would be like to be the commander and chief of the most powerf...

I've been living in New Mexico for a little over two years now. When I lived in Missouri I never followed local politics very much. Here...

I watched Invictus for the second time last weekend. The movie depicts the newly-elected South African president Nelson Mandela and his s...

Pastor George, a church pastor who partners with Open Doors in Egypt, had just returned home from a prayer meeting in the house of a believe...

I love going to the gym in the mornings. It gives me a chance to watch the news. It also gives me a chance to compare the differences betwee...

I think everyone should be entitled to at least one dumb moment per week. Mine was today. I forgot it was Martin Luther King day. I went to...