It's hard to believe that it's been three years since God brought Lucy into our life. Three years of joy and exhaustion and recalibrated plans about life. As I reflect on those three "features" of life with Lucy, here are some lessons I'm learning, in no particular order: Sometimes often a mom won't get a Sabbath rest, and rejuvenating time with God, unless dad makes ...

This Halloween is the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, when Martin Luther revealed his 95 Theses, setting off a firestorm of debate, controversy, change, and blessed freedom. Many passages of Scripture could claim to be the heart of the Reformation; Colossians 2:23 is one of them. If you want to understand the Reformation, seek to understand Colossian...

An old Reformer once said, of the Christian's life, that "unless we are addicted to righteousness", "we will faithlessly abandon our Creator". That phrase - "addicted to righteousness" - is striking. Certainly the language of addiction applies to our present day, even in our entertainment practices - we don't just "watch TV"; we "binge watch" shows. And there is the myriad...

Sometimes God gives compare and contrast moments that are inescapable. This morning I saw in the New York Times that Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy, had died. Thinking biblically: ". . . you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God . . . because of t...

Many of you have asked about my family member Gracie, who was shot by a fellow student in her school a couple weeks ago. She is recovering well. Though the bullet literally bounced off her spine (and missed her aorta by a hair), doctors expect a full recovery (though she is not yet walking again). As you read this, please pray for her. As I understand it, she was shot and...