The Best

I love cooking! My wife is a great cook but she doesn’t love doing it as much as I do. So in support of the era of the new spousal division of labors, I do the cooking.

I’m not an awesome cook, but every once in awhile I knock one out of the park. When that happens, I write down what I did and try to repeat it. Now I have a small and growing list of great recipes that my family raves about and others ask the recipes for. I’ve got a simple secret for developing these recipes and bulding my list; it’s two words, ‘The Best.’

Let me explain, I’ve been cooking turkeys for many years and up until recently the result has been hit and miss. I finally decided that I wanted to make the best turkey ever. I mean, why take the time to cook such a wonderful meal only to get mediocer results? So I opened my computer and Googled, ‘the best way to cook a turkey.’ Read the story »

Does God Send Disaster

According to Wikipedia ‘Act of God’ is a legal term for events outside of human control, such as sudden floods or other natural disasters, for which no one can be held responsible. In other words, if we don’t understand it and/or we can’t find any humans to blame for it, then God must have done it.

Although the logic is highly flawed, the truth is when we hear that yet another disaster has happened, most of us wonder what part, if any, God had in it. Did he do it? Did he allow it? Why didn’t he prevent it? People in the media know that we wonder. Ever notice that when disaster strikes and some preacher somewhere seems to say, “God did it” it becomes front page news.

If we wonder, then what do we say to our children when they sit with us and see the TV images of rescue workers pulling damaged or dead humans from the aftermath? What do we say when they hear the report that Reverend so-and-so said God sent the killing blow? Read the story »

God is Love

If our experience is not what God wants it to be, it is because of our unbelief in the love of God, in the power of God and in the reality of God’s promises. (Andrew Murray)

Here are two renditions of a portion of the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-12) with very different perspectives on who God is. They are not meant to be a theological exploration of the meaning of the words in their original Greek. Rather, they illustrate that how we pray and what we expect from our relationship with God will reflect who we – and our children – believe God is, and what we believe him to be like. Read the story »