“I like Jesus alright; it’s Christians that I can’t stand.” Surely you’ve heard this sentiment before. It’s often used as an excuse for why, although someone has no real opposition to the person of Christ, they are unwilling to profess the Christian faith. It’s the Christians, they say, who make Jesus look bad. If being […]
Every one of us faces temptation. Even Jesus was not immune, “tempted in every way, just as we are” (Hebrews 4:15). Anyone who has read the Gospels knows that Jesus was tempted during his 40 days in the desert and then again in the garden just before his trial and suffering. But the writer of […]
I perched on the edge of the hot tub. Worship music played through my earbuds. My heart raced with anxiety as I anticipated sitting in the water alone. I slid to the top step and immediately had to talk sense into my imagination. The creatures I pictured lurking beneath the surface couldn’t possibly fit into […]
I love to read C. S. Lewis so you can imagine my delight in discovering one of his early short stories lately published in 1977. This particular story was found hiding in a bound notebook. Though many questioned its authenticity, a later revision in Lewis’s own hand, along with the testimony of Douglas Gresham who […]
We have all waited at some point. We wait in line at the bank for the next available teller. We wait to checkout at Walmart—behind the frazzled mom with the screaming child. There’s the unnerving sock-footed wait for the TSA screening as we pass through airport security and, yes, there’s the slow wait for our […]
