Paul Simon sang, There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, which was a fun song in 1975, but turned out not to be the life I was interested in. I preferred Dan …
A friend of mine used to begin every prayer: “Father, I love you.” When I first heard him, I thought it was cool. After a couple years, something began to seem strange. I liked that he loved God, but …
In ninth grade, my brother Andy’s locker
partner (the school drug supplier) had a bad trip on LSD. The bad trip
continued in a small series of scary flashbacks, and Kevin asked Andy if God …
“I’m going to walk” was the first thing I said to a quiet room and sleeping Cyndi. I was still prone in bed, but my inclination was in the direction of getting up. …
When I grew up in Detroit, the
population was over 1,200,000 people. I spent the next forty years living in
Ann Arbor, population of about 120,000. Last summer, my wife and I moved to
Brooklyn MI, …
Four years ago, I met with a pastor who talked about
problems in his church. I asked him what he thought
he should do. He said, “Watch it! ‘Thinking’
puts you into the devil’s territory.” (He really …
My friend was recently fired from a job
when he was blamed him for a mistake the boss had made. He said to me, “All is
good.” The next week his wife totaled one of their two cars. My friend said, …
Someone recently asked me to write an
endorsement for his upcoming book on intercessory prayer. He read my book on Hearing God in Conversation and wrote a
positive review on Amazon.
His …
Twenty-three years ago, my sister Becky
lost her son in an accident as he walked home from school. Is there any greater
sadness for any parent than the early death of a child? I think not. This is …
In 1930, legendary economist John
Maynard Keyes wrote an essay about our future lifestyle in the twenty-first
century. He predicted that industrial progress would reduce our workload to 15 hours
a …
Four score and eleven years ago—in 1928—George
Washington Hill had a problem: he
wanted more women to smoke cigarettes. But smoking was scorned as a crutch for
“fallen women and prostitutes.” He was …