The central glory of our faith is that we have a Savior. We are loaded down with sins, shortcomings, failures, bad habits of mind and heart, and an assortment of all kinds of baggage that make us miserable. We are the kind of people who need a Savior, so Christianity is the religion for us. […]

(If you feel like actually reading this, you’ll probably have to go to the bother of clicking on it!)

We hear a lot today about father hunger: so many kids grow up with absentee dads, and it leaves a gnawing hunger in them as they restlessly look a for paternal authority that takes responsibility and loves sacrificially. It is a sad reality. But this parental abdication is not limited to dads.
I see a real […]

Yes. It came out of the carton that way.
Now, I find this disturbing. And I don’t want to have a bunch of people writing in to tell me that they keep chickens and I ought to toughen up and not stress out about a little feather. I completely reserve to myself the right to stress […]

When our kids were little, we stumbled across (I’m not sure how) a fun little nature magazine for kids that had a Christian outlook instead of the “man is evil and destroying everything” mentality. So we subscribed to it, and I hung on to several of the old issues.
Last summer when the Merkles were living […]