Who Programmed Your GPS?

Who Programmed Your GPS?

The New York Times recently had a great article featuring real stories of hapless drivers mindlessly following their GPS.  Here are a few examples:  “It kept saying it would navigate us a road,” said a Japanese tourist in Australia who, while attempting to reach North...
Facing Our Fears, part 1

Facing Our Fears, part 1

Just this past Sunday I attended a Missions luncheon at the church I’m now serving. A short-term team who had recently returned from Egypt showed a video featuring several friends of ours who are Christian leaders in Cairo.  It was fun to see their faces and hear...
The Politics of Heaven

The Politics of Heaven

Many of us have grown up with a traditional view of heaven that came from the culture around us.  In fact, our traditional view of heaven is diametrically opposed to where the Bible actually ends: Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the...
The Universe Knew We Were Coming

The Universe Knew We Were Coming

Since my book Paradox Lost: Rediscovering the Mystery of God was published last week, I’ve started to receive notes about it. Here’s a note from my friend Jack Gould, who quotes something written by Philip Yancy in his devotional Grace Notes: “In physicist Freeman...
The Other Side of Mother’s Day

The Other Side of Mother’s Day

One of the most emotionally moving worship services I have ever attended was two years ago.   It was a Service of Remembrance for children lost through miscarriage by women in the MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) group that met at the church. The service began with the...
How Are We All Like Crabs?

How Are We All Like Crabs?

During the month of April, I am occasionally sharing some brief excerpts from my new book coming out May 3 about how encountering paradox helps us better experience God. Today we touch on a critical issue discussed in the book–how our worldviews must keep...
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