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Loaded: Exchanging Your Life of Craving for One of Contentment (1 Tim. 6:11-16)

We live in a culture characterized by craving.  In his book Things Unseen, Mark Buchanan writes about this: I saw this close-up … when my children first got to that age when the essence of Christmas becomes The Day of Getting. There were mounds of gifts beneath our tree, and our son led the way in that favorite childhood (and, more subtly, adult) game, How Many Are for Me? But the telling moment came Christmas morning when the gifts were handed out. The children ripped through them, shredding and scattering the wrappings like jungle plants before a well-wielded machete…When the ransacking was finished, my son, standing amid a tumultuous sea of boxes and bright crumpled paper and exotic trappings, asked plaintively, “Is this all there is?“[1]Read More »Loaded: Exchanging Your Life of Craving for One of Contentment (1 Tim. 6:11-16)

Tangled: The God Who’s More Involved with the Forgotten Than You Might Imagine

Fifty two million people in the United States watched the royal wedding of Prince William and Katherine Middleton.  People were captured by this modern fairy tale.  It began in 2001 when upper class William and middle class Middleton met at St Andrews University in Scotland.  In 2004, they were photographed skiing together in Switzerland, one of the first times they were publicly linked romantically.  In June 2005, the pair finished college at St Andrews and each pursued a career.  In early 2007 it appeared the fairy tale was over.  The couple split.  But later that year were seen back together again.  And then, in October 2010, nine years after they first met, the couple got engaged during a vacation in Kenya. Prince William gave her the same diamond and sapphire engagement ring that Prince Charles gave to William’s mother, Princess Diana. They married on April 29, 2011.  Fifty two million of us watched that wedding.Read More »Tangled: The God Who’s More Involved with the Forgotten Than You Might Imagine