My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? —Psalm 22:1 NIV It started with a trip to the DMV to replace my stolen driver’s license. Despite having to spend the first official day of my vacation doing something that […]
Ten years ago, Pastor Mike Ashcroft issued his church a challenge: forget the resolutions and focus on one word. The sermon caught fire, became a movement, and ultimately resulted in the book, called My One Word: Change Your Life with Just One Word. Ashcroft says the premise is simple: Lose the long list of resolutions―all […]
A recent Facebook post caught my eye: California is on fire, Oregon is on fire, Montana is on fire, areas of Canada are on fire, Texas is underwater, Idaho had a 5.3 earthquake, North Korea just tested their 6th nuclear bomb causing a 6.3 explosion quake, and Irma is now the most powerful category 5 […]
On Saturday, August 12th, a group of white supremacists and far right wingers marched to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Fights broke out between the hate group and counter-protestors, and then twenty-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr., drove his gray Dodge Challenger into the marchers. Fields injured nineteen and killed […]