• On July 29, 2009 by

    LEAP!

    For those who have been asking for the Leap! poem, here it is… Read more

  • On July 19, 2009 by

    Fallen

    In Frederick Buechner’s novel Godric, the twelfth century holy man makes a pilgrimage to Rome seven centuries after its fall and says…

    I carried Aedwen on my shoulders up a hill where goats leapt at their lecheries and dropped their berries through the fallen halls where Caesar and his lords had hatched the laws that ruled the world. Poor folk grew cabbage there.

    Two provocative sentences from Mr. Buechner’s pen.

    The glory of Rome fallen to a haunt of goats and a cabbage patch for the poor.

    Yes, the centuries roll on relentlessly and empires do fall. Read more

  • On July 8, 2009 by

    No walk in the park


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  • On July 4, 2009 by

    I’m Not Here

    I’m not inside your computer.

    I’m not in cyber space.

    I’m not here.

    I’m in the mountains with the whole family.

    So no blog. Just a quote, a book, and a song. Read more

  • On June 25, 2009 by

    For Whom The Bell Tolls

    June 25, 2009.
    Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
    Two American-culture icons.
    Dead on the same day.
    The cynic says,
    Why all the news coverage for Jacko and Farrah? There’s more important news than the death of celebrities.
    That’s one way of looking at it. Read more

  • On June 22, 2009 by

    The Christ Illuminated Life

    The following is not a fully developed essay, as I often do when posting a blog, but just some thoughts I will share in our staff chapel tomorrow morning. Feel free to read them if you like.

    “The true light which enlightens everyone was coming into the world.” -John 1:9

    Once a person comes to believe that Jesus is the Christ, there are two options for responding positively to this reality. Allow me to set them forth. Read more

  • On June 18, 2009 by

    The Savior of the World (and DMB)

    “We have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world” 1 John 4:14

    Do you believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world? This is what the Apostle John claimed in both his gospel and his first epistle. But do you believe it? Do you really believe that Jesus is the savior of the world?

    You know how the famous verse goes…For God so loved the world, etc. And then the next verse: For God did not send his Son into the the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

    Then in the next chapter the Samaritans in Sychar declare that they have come to believe that Jesus is the savior of the world.

    (And I suspect they believed this because they saw how Jesus was capable of mending the breach of historic hostility which separated Jews and Samaritans.)

    But do you believe it? Do you believe that Jesus is the savior of the world? I’m not asking if you believe if Jesus saves individuals who are in the world, but whether you believe Jesus is the savior of the world. Is Jesus the savior of God’s creation and God’s dream of human society living in harmony and exercising dominion as creation’s caretakers? Do you believe that what was lost by the First Adam can be recovered by the Last Adam? Do you believe that the one Mary Magdalene thought was the gardener can restore the Garden? Read more

  • On June 3, 2009 by

    Are Christians afraid of conversation?

    Since the publication of What to Do on the Worst Day of Your Life in March, I have given a few dozen interviews, mainly on talk radio, and I have noticed something that bothers me. These interviews have been pretty evenly divided between mainstream format radio and Christian format radio. Generally, the questions I’m given on mainstream radio are thoughtful, and at times challenging, leading to a lively and substantive conversation. Conversely, the questions I’m typically given on Christian radio are shallow and trite and I have to work at preventing the conversation from becoming glib. That may sound a bit harsh, but I’ll stand by it. Read more

  • On May 25, 2009 by

    Highlands


    Philip in the highlands

    Peri, Philip and I spend Memorial Day well above treeline.

    My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I roam.

    Highlands. I love this song. It’s long. 16 minutes and 32 seconds. So slow down and enjoy life.

    Enjoy Life. That’s what I’ll preach on Friday night. When we return from the highlands.

    My heart’s in the Highlands, can’t see any other way to go.

    Blessings,

    BZ

    Here’s the tune…
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