I love a parade!  Who doesn’t?  The floats, the bands, and especially the candy! But what about a parade of one?  Can you imagine one “float” holding an entire city’s attention?  It sounds kind of boring…yet that’s exciting the type of parade that took place on the first Palm Sunday and it CAPTIVATED the city […]

Everything has a beginning and an end…every book, every movie, every person we know or encounter has a start and a finish.  We hold this as constant in our ever-changing world.  But what if we were wrong?  What if there was more than we perceived?  What if our lives, as we understand them, were not […]

On a mountainside one sunny day, Jesus said “love your enemies.”  In these three words, He completely flipped the world upside down.  We’re all very good at having enemies and hating our enemies…it pretty much comes naturally to most of us.  But what does it look like to love our enemies?  To give up our […]

Have you ever read a book that didn’t end the way you expected?  Or maybe you’ve seen a movie that just exceeded all your expectations?  We walk through life constantly making assumptions and anticipating things to go a certain way.  Yet when it comes to a life lived for Christ, we quickly learn that things […]

Self-driving cars are the next big thing!  Or so they tell me.  To be honest, I’m a little uncomfortable giving up control to a machine to drive me to work.  Granted, I think the automated parallel parking sounds amazing but complete control over driving…I’m not so sure.  Control is a hard thing to give up.  […]

The Lenten season is here.  Six weeks set aside each year to prepare our hearts for Easter.  Traditionally, we are called to “give something up” for Lent.  These simple sacrifices help to focus our minds on the ultimate sacrifice by Jesus for us.  As we give up sweets or meat or even Facebook, we reflect […]