Responding to last week’s post on “your will be done” someone made the comment “It looks like you think that God doesn’t care about our decisions.”  My offending remark had to do with a friend who wants to buy a house that his wife is not equally enamored of. My conclusion was that, in some...... Read More

The shoulder’s doing great, thanks for asking. And I’m figuring out how to do more of the daily arm-related tasks for myself, so my non-dependent self is feeling a bit smug. I can sense the growing ability to be busy challenging the truth of my need for help from my wife and, ultimately, from God....... Read More

In my last post, I used the opening of the Lords prayer, “Our Father,” to begin an extended discussion on faith. Before pushing further into Jesus’ famous words, I thought it might be good to take a look at one feature of being a child of our father – the scary good truth of dependence....... Read More

The Intimate Majesty of the Father “Our Father in heaven …” When Jesus’ disciples make the simple request, “Teach us to pray,” he answers with what might be the best known text in the New Testament – what we call the Lord’s Prayer. As I think about this response, Jesus seems to be saying, “I...... Read More

Don’t you wish God was simple? What about believing in God, or knowing how to handle the regular moral and relational dilemmas that we face? Wouldn’t it be a relief to have a collection of Bible texts that could take us, step by step, through each day and each day’s demands? After all, life is...... Read More