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  • The Secret to Getting God to do What You Want

    OK, so here’s how I know I still don’t have it right. I spend a significant portion of my spiritual life trying to figure out how to control God. After forty-some years of following Jesus, I’ve gotten better at disguising my efforts as attempts to “get closer” to God (He’s never fooled. I’m kind of …[ read more ]

  • Bill Belichick and Me

    My conversion to football fan came relatively late in life and is due to a certain friendship with lasting influence and one man– Bill Belichick. As I was drawn, along with all of New England, to the compelling dynasty of the Patriots’ winning seasons, my life entered a season of constant change. Serious illness affects …[ read more ]

  • Can You Keep A Secret?

    God is so not like me. If I were Jesus, whenever I performed a miracle or healed someone or raised someone from the dead, I would say “Be sure to tell your friends! Spread the word, people. God is on the scene!” I’d have appointed John as PR man for the Judean press and given …[ read more ]

  • Shepherds, Cowherds and The Secret of Life

    So, even though King David lived in ancient Israel before cell phones, laptops, call waiting and 300 cable channels, he understood the problem of modern man. In Psalm 86:11b he cries out “Give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name.” An undivided heart? Some days I can barely find an undivided minute! …[ read more ]

  • You Can Rest When You’re Dead.

    So, if you ever think that Jesus cannot understand what your life is like, take a moment and read Mark, chapter 6. Now, in Mark, chapter 5, (go ahead, read that, too) Jesus as been someplace called the region of the Gerasenes. Not important, except that he’s not home. Anyway, so there He’s doing amazing …[ read more ]