Good Guilt: What Letterman Got Right…and not

If we went to bed before the Late Show began, we woke up to the headlines telling us what we missed.  Time Magazine put it this way:  “Letterman Brings Sex and Extortion to Late Night.”  The story went on to report how “the 62-year-old comedian skipped his customary Top Ten list, telling his studio audience he wanted to tell them a ‘little story.’ He then went on to describe a three-week ordeal in which a man had attempted to blackmail him to the tune of $2 million for sleeping with female members of his staff.” Continue reading →

God Likes Long Odds
 
I’m just back from Hunting Park Christian Academy where I joined four members of our Mission Committee for a morning at this remarkable place. Our tour guide was a vivacious sixth grader named Yerlitza accompanied by Jen Deane, the Director of Development, who many of you met last spring when she helped interpret the work and ministry of HPCA during our Sunday worship services. 
 
From Noah facing a flood of evil and 100% chance of rain to the shepherd boy David taking on nine foot nine Goliath, it seems that our God likes long odds.  From 5 loaves and two fish for 5,000 hungry people to twelve misfit disciples to turn the whole world upside down, it seems that our God is willing to take long odds.  At Hunting Park Christian Academy, God is taking long odds and the children and their families in one of Philadelphia’s toughest neighborhoods are the winners.  Continue reading →

 Foul Balls and Common Grace
 
Have you seen the replay of the little girl whose daddy caught the foul ball at Tuesday’s Phillies game?  Take a look.  Before Major League Baseball Inc. took them all down, there were scores of You Tube postings of the scene.  It plays better with the sound off. 
 
So the daddy, a season ticket holder, catches his first ever foul ball and high fives his friends. Continue reading →

Truth in a Post-9/11 World
 
This post comes to you from Memphis, Tennessee, where I am spending a few days with our youngest daughter.  I’ll be back in Langhorne late Saturday night.  So, on 9/10 and 9/12 I will be flying and on 9/11 I will be at Shiloh National Battlefield in southwest Tennessee.  I’ll be thinking about our country and our times.  Continue reading →

Finding the Right Answers
 
This past Wednesday evening our newest group of confirmation kids gathered for food (pizza made by the students), fellowship and information on this year’s class journey.  Chet Marshall, Carol Casten and Joe Franzi are returning on September 13 as the Sunday morning teaching team and Barb Chase and I will be with the kids for their first-Sunday-evening-of-the-month classes beginning in October. Continue reading →