Food for Thought

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating!” A famous old phrase that seems to make a lot of sense – in most cases.  Basically the adage tells you that the only thing that matters is the final outcome.  What it tastes like or how good the result is. ...

Political parties often refer to their platform as the foundation on which their messages are built.  A platform is made up of various planks – the key pieces of structure that undergird the position and message. Well, similarly in distilling the message of...

You land in a different country.  It’s early in the morning after a night flight and your energy is low, your mind is foggy and now you have to navigate the cheery people at the customs and immigration checkpoints of this new nation – which is completely foreign...

Lately I’ve been taken with the vast difference in outlook that results from how we view truth.  Now, before you dismiss these thoughts as so ethereal as to be of no use, please hang in there for a moment.  In the 20th century evangelical mind, truth and...

The Story of God in relation to creation is basically a really simple story of a great relationship gone bad, and the way back. Clearly there are lots of twists and turns, nuances, and deep meaning, but at its root it’s a story of creative love that was broken and is...

Have you ever seen a diamond before it’s polished? Actually, you may have seen one but didn’t even know it was a diamond. It’s not pretty. It isn’t polished, and it certainly doesn’t have the fire we look for in good quality diamonds. Most people might even sift...