Charles Christian

Musician Leon Redbone once said, “Home is where you hang your hat.” This is a version of the older phrase, “Home is where your heart is.”

Church attendance and connection are not the most fashionable thing to talk about these days.

We live in what one writer recently called a “time of outrage.”

Growing up, I remember watching “strong man” competitions on TV. Gigantic men from all over the world would gather to participate in incredible feats of strength that included pulling a truck, lifting large stones and racing with large weights on their backs.  

The creation account described in the Book of Genesis features God “breathing life” into human beings (Genesis 2:7).  

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Martin Luther King, Jr., once said that faith is not being able to see the whole staircase; rather, it is seeing and taking the next step.It’s hard to move ahead when we don’t know what the outcomes will be. And, we seldom know what the outcomes will be. Yet we are compelled by things like

Little Oscar was five years old, playing hide and seek with his elementary school friends at church. Kids were running through hallways and hiding in classrooms in the children’s department. Finally, the teacher called all the children together for snacks, because game time was over. As they gathered, she and her assistant scanned the crowd

“You know how you eat an elephant?” the professor asked a group of overwhelmed students during finals week. “One piece at a time.”The students chuckled at the metaphor, but its meaning wasn’t lost on them. We all face big challenges. Often, these are issues that seem to come out of nowhere and hit us hard.

I had a teacher who wrote the following in my yearbook at the end of my senior year in high school: “Never do anything you wouldn’t stand on a chair and announce at a family reunion.” The older I get, the wiser these words become. Looking back, though, I know how hard this advice has