What’s Your Problem?

What’s Your Problem?

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. People are defined by their problems. Here’s a more accurate way to put it:  You are defined by whatever you consider your most important problem. A heartbreakingly large number of people...
True Healing

True Healing

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Author and sociologist Tony Campolo is frequently invited to speak about his faith around the country. A few years back he visited a church in Oregon.  Following his message, Tony was...
The Incredible Shrinking Heart

The Incredible Shrinking Heart

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. We must not let the work of God through us destroy the work of God in us. That was a lesson I had to learn as a young pastor trying to launch a new congregation just outside Indianapolis. I...
Picturing the Heart of God

Picturing the Heart of God

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.For most of its history, the island nation of Japan has remained culturally isolated from the rest of the world.That began to change during the second half of the 20th century.  After its catastrophic defeat in...

Picturing the Heart of God

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.For most of its history, the island nation of Japan has remained culturally isolated from the rest of the world.That began to change during the second half of the 20th century.  After its catastrophic defeat in...