People like to assert the timeworn axiom that hindsight is 20-20. More than most axioms, that truism is dead wrong. Few among us see the past any more clearly than we see the present or future. If hindsight were 20-20, historians wouldn’t spend years developing the...
Occasionally, when I am in a feisty and perverse mood, I tease some of my fundamentalist friends by telling them that Paul did not write a single book in our Bible. When they sputter and fume, I tell them that my source for this opinion is Paul himself. Yes, he...
The inspiration for this sermon came years ago when our children were small. Little germ carriers that they were, they brought home a horrible virus that swept through our entire household, inducing high fever and achiness. Our family could do nothing more than...