When Bonnie and I first had Moses I told myself that I was going to resist the urge to make sermon illustrations out of my experience of fatherhood, but now here I am.  The urge is just too strong…

Because if you have any doubt that there is such a thing as “original sin”, meaning that humans don’t have [...]

Forgiving Fathers
from Father’s Day 2008
adapted from Poet Dick Lourie
There are few examples of good fathers. In nature, in scripture, in society, or in media a good father is hard to find. The poet Dick Lourie writes, “If we forgive our fathers what is left?” Withholding forgiveness from our fathers can serve as [...]