Recently, I was teaching the story of Abraham to my students. The climactic story is the one where God calls him to sacrifice his son Isaac. It is the most famous story about Abraham. Even people who have never picked…
“Come to the church on Saturday,” I said to my students, “Come and see Mr. Grayson die.” That is what I said when I invited my students to my wedding. This past week I was privileged to attend both a…
A brother and a sister lived together in a loft in a large converted warehouse. The warehouse was on fire, and the fire was blocking the exits. As the flames engulfed their loft, they moved further in, to a loft…
Very recently, the wife of a famous murder victim very publicly forgave the man who killed her husband. The reaction to this has be wide and varied. Some expressed admiration. Others were incredulous. And still others were humbled. But the…
This past weekend I was down with an illness. Nothing life-threatening, but it had me up two nights in a row. To tell you the truth, I feel like I’ve been through the wringer. But as the sickness cleared up,…
We’ve all been there. Someone says something on an online forum, or in a conversation, something that we know is mistaken. Immediately we want to put it right. “That’s wrong!”, we might say. We might follow up to the posting…