Indifference I confess to being mired in philosophical muck as I ponder this year’s presidential election. How should I as an Adventist Christian relate to the spectrum of thought — or lack of it — being flung like buckshot? What is Christ’s call upon me as on... Read more
Goats Scripture makes it plain. Some people are going to be sheep and some goats. There doesn’t seem to be any middle ground in this imagery — no halfway pen of undecided antelopes. I used to wonder about all of this. But then came the summer of the goats. Read more
Sword Before the age of multiblade, aloe-infused, disposable razors, there was the “safety” razor. A vast improvement over the venerable but temperamental straight-edge razor, this implement was a thing of engineering beauty to any young lad who longed ... Read more
Appearances A few years ago, I did the unlikely improbable impossibility. That's descriptive, not redundant. Read more
Providence Providence has often been a stumbling block for the human experience. Advent believers in the early 1840s saw God’s providence in Scripture preparing an escape from the trials of a wicked world. Read more
Pathways Long, long ago, and not so far away, I learned a memorable lesson from the joys and sorrows of Northwest berries. Read more
Grace "God spreads grace like a 4-year-old spreads peanut butter — He gets it all over everything." Mark Lowry Read more
Missionary An old story tells of a lighthouse overlooking the foggy Atlantic. This lighthouse had a gun that sounded a warning every hour. The keeper who tended the beacon kept enough shells in the gun so it would keep firing. After decades, he could sleep r... Read more
