It seems that every four years we’re told that this election is the most important election ever. I am amazed at the ever-increasing importance of them! Working backwards one wonders how unimportant the election of, say, 1816 was. This is not to diminish the importance of the issues at stake today. Voters face issues that…

The apostle John had a series of visions that make up the book of Revelation. These visions revealed the flow of human history from God’s perspective. Over and over again John saw evil on the precipice of victory, only to see a Lamb—that had been slaughtered—standing victorious over it all. No matter how great the…

Last Sunday I read the story of David and Goliath to the kiddos during our service. I read from “The Jesus Storybook Bible” by Sally Lloyd-Jones, complete with the proper voices (I didn’t make the voices up; I just read what she wrote, with her intended sound effects and/or inflections). It is a story worth…

Every person who has ever lived was born into a cognitive environment. A cognitive environment is the sum total of all the things a person understands and recognizes and knows intuitively. One does not need to be a football fan to recognize what the Super Bowl is—provided one lives in America. A Maasai woman in…

My wife loves deleted scenes. Every movie has them. Not all material that is filmed makes it into the final movie. Sometimes it’s clear why a scene was “deleted”; it added nothing to the story. Sometimes, though, a deleted scene offers a bit of insight into the story, but was cut solely for the sake…