This is my first post in more than a month. I took a break from writing as we have been traveling to visit family for the past month. Before returning home a couple of days ago, my wife and I...

     Forty years ago this Christmas, my wife and I created some home-made Christmas cards.  We dripped some red wax on the cover in the form of a candle, glued on some small sprigs of cedar, and then painted...

Markings, my notes on the Bible, is now available on this site for your use.  (The New Testament section is current while the Hebrew Scriptures section is still under construction.) This resource began as a set of 3″x5″ cards more...

One of the themes of this blog is that the word continues to become flesh and that the point of reading and studying the Bible is to embody its words in our lives.  Here is another take on that theme....

One of the common themes of this blog is the danger of disconnected doctrine.  The clearest example of this for me comes when grace becomes a doctrine and ceases to be a way of life; such as a sermon on the...

I am looking out my window at our fig tree which is leafing out after winter dormancy.  The new leaves are light green.  Later in the year they will be darker and shiny, but now they gather in the afternoon...

In my last post, I wrote about the degrees of separation between the readers of the Bible and the people whose experiences of God found their way into the Scriptures.  I talked about the people who had the experiences and...

I’m intrigued by the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”  I’ve never played it, and I doubt that I’d be any good at it since I’m not a movie buff.  But the underlying assumption is interesting:  there are no more...

Welcome to a new blog!  This post is an introduction.  There are some previous posts as I was trying to get my thoughts together.  Check some of them out after reading this one. With this blog, I invite you to...

A question to all preachers:  What is it about the sermon you are preparing to preach that can only be proclaimed by you? If you were to write out your sermon, word for word, could someone else read it and...