You’ll hear a lot of crazy things this time of year. Advertisers of various sorts telling us all about the real meaning of Christmas. Jay Leno’s book Headlines shows an advertisement for a dentist offering a special on dentures. The ad is tagged, “After all, the gift of chewing is what the holidays are [...]

Psalm 119 is a masterpiece! In a way it is like the Sistine Chapel. That work of Michelangelo is magnificent (I’m told) when you step back and try to take it all in. And, each individual panel or “fresco” is a masterful work of art in and of itself. Psalm 119 is the longest psalm [...]

Have you heard? The stories we’ve heard—the official story—of what happened on September 11, 2001, is a myth. A lie. A deception. That’s what Dylan Avery and others like him want us to believe. The creator of “Loose Change”—a documentary film created in 2005, then revised in 2006 and 2007—claims President Bush was the real [...]

The cross is an unlikely choice for the symbol of a religion. The Jews have the Star of David as their symbol; the Buddhists a Lotus flower; Muslims display a Crescent and star. These symbols were beautiful or good from the beginning. The cross was a horrible form of execution. Max Lucado understands: “Would you [...]

Is Christianity more like golf or football? Someone might say, “Golf because Christianity is like walking through life and it helps you deal with one problem after another until finally you arrive at that great club house in the sky.” But I think Christianity is more like football (don’t overanalyze my metaphor too much here). [...]

I was asked to conduct a funeral recently. I had never met the deceased. I know his adult son. I was told by another close relative that, “He wasn’t a religious man.” The night before the funeral I was up late. My thoughts were all over the place. What should I say? How should I [...]

From Keep Your Head – Pastor LePage’s blog Three decades after D-day, Gen. O.N. Bradley wrote that he returned to the beaches of Normandy many times to remember the men who fought and died there—as well as those who survived and won the day by the slimmest of margins. He said, “They should never be [...]

From Keep Your Head – Pastor LePage’s blog Numerous websites offer “Tips for How to Love Yourself”. A google search for “love yourself” produces more than a million hits. One site—written by a psychotherapist—gives such an extensive list of ways to “boost your self-love” that if you followed all the directions, you would be constantly [...]