By Kelly Carr Tomorrow I get to see Hamilton: An American Musical with a friend and my daughter. Soon the culmination of months of anticipation will be in our grasp—and then it will be over. That’s the way life is. In the Hamilton song “One Last Time,” George Washington tells his mentee, Alexander Hamilton, that […]
By Kelly Carr It’s never fun to open a book and discover you relate to the bad guys. How am I a Pharisee? Let me count the ways. For years when I read about pharisaical tendencies, I felt chief among them. Their qualities were my qualities. Their desire for rule, order, discipline, and legalism fit […]
Facts, faith, feelings. As a young man studying for ministry, I was taught that was the proper sequence to follow in our walk with God. There are facts to be believed. There are commands to be obeyed by faith. Then there are feelings to be experienced as a result. But today in most of our […]
By Kelly Carr Water—there’s something about it that fascinates me. Nature draws my mind to God, water especially. It causes me to reflect upon the Lord. When I am by an ocean, the magnitude of God’s power overwhelms me. When I glimpse a waterfall, his grandeur is showered upon my soul. When I am by […]
By Kelly Carr This week we begin a four-part series looking at four different people (or groups of people) Jesus encountered. Each Scripture text comes from the book of John. As I have discovered before in this job as editor, when I read what our authors create, I gain new perspective on familiar stories. For […]
