Sometimes puzzling, never pointless

A man is planning to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Yes, really! He believes birth has zero value and “human existence is totally pointless”.* The report took me back to an encounter with the Lord during a not-so-ordinary coffee date. On...

Hope and Future

The Doomsday Clock has been in the news again. A group of scientists use global catastrophe indicators to reset the hands of the clock. The current setting is two minutes to apocalyptic midnight! Their message: choices (made or avoided) have put earth’s future at high...

The ADMIRATION priority

We all enjoy getting answers to prayer, but is this what makes up the real ‘core’ of prayer joy? If our prayer enjoyment depends on answers, what happens when answers don’t come? Or maybe they do come, but are not the ones we were hoping for! We’ve all experienced the...

ENJOY Praying

A key to ENJOYABLE praying: Learn to GAZE! Praying is meant to be enjoyable. Not only a discipline but a delight. Dutiful but joyless praying is often the reason for prayer gatherings being thin in attendance or disappearing completely. It’s difficult to sustain what...