No Goats in Heaven I’m not sure what God has against goats, but it looks like they’ll be missing in the New Earth. Sheep make it, but no goats. Read more
Breaking Bob: The $50,000 Bake Sale During my family vacation in California this summer, I received a text from my associate pastor informing me Bob, an outstanding long-time member of our church, wanted to have a bake sale the first day of school. Admittedly, I was reluctant, and, ... Read more
Living God's Love Predicting what health care in America will look like as we move into the future is like trying to walk outside during a hurricane. The winds of debate are strong, outcomes often unpredictable. During last year alone, more than 100 hospitals aroun... Read more
Good News About Hell What’s happening with the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Members worldwide are worried about this month’s Annual Council, where global representatives will debate what should happen to elected leaders and their constituencies who are “out of compli... Read more
Listen “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” — David Augsburger, Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard Read more
Along Came a Spider, Part 1 Shortly after Angela, Madeline and I moved to Omaha, we experienced a season of horror in our new house. The otherwise pleasant parsonage housing our new little pastoral family took a turn for the worse one morning when I came down the basement st... Read more
Is the Church Going Through? "No matter what, the Seventh‑day Adventist Church is going straight through to the kingdom," a veteran leader declared. "Even if the General Conference president and I are the only ones left in the church, I'm staying with the ship." Read more
A Church Bully Transformed America is at war — not just with ISIS but with itself. Civility vaporized during last year’s presidential campaign, and since then our nation has become even nastier. Campuses are convulsed with hate disguised as tolerance. Politics is polarizing... Read more
When I Was 35 When I was 35 years old I was an ordained Seventh-day Adventist pastor and an academy principal. Read more
