by Nate | Apr 28, 2017 | Building Bridges
Maybe you’ve had the same or a similar experience as this while driving; I was traveling in the far left lane of three lanes on the highway headed for home and not far ahead noticed a vehicle merging from the right lane into the center lane. He looked in a hurry, so I...
by Nate | Oct 7, 2015 | Building Bridges
In many ways, he is right. President Obama said the other day in the wake of another mass shooting that it is all “routine.” It happened again. Our response is routine. His words are routine. We go on. A routine. And people who care about it all are left asking the...
by Nate | Aug 24, 2015 | Building Bridges
I’ve seen a trend in a number of social situations over the past several months. It is nothing new. It has been happening likely for over 2000 years. But it seems to have been growing in popularity in recent times and the sheer concentration I’ve seen it happening...
by Nate | Jun 29, 2015 | Building Bridges
There are two assumptions I’ve seen many people (Christian or not) make about God. First, most of us assume that the primary goal of God is for us to be good; to behave within a certain set of moral guidelines. Next, people assume that God’s secondary goal is for us...
by Nate | Mar 23, 2015 | Building Bridges
I’ve spent a lot of my life wanting…needing to be right. It didn’t matter what it was…I had to be the one who had the correct argument and it didn’t matter what it cost me to get there. And even as I write this I have to admit that I still struggle with it more than...
by Nate | Feb 24, 2015 | Building Bridges
This verse, a prelude to one of my absolute favorite Old Testament stories, happened to be in my devotions this morning; “And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but...
