Seventy five years ago today, a B-29 Superfortress nicknamed the “Enola Gay” circled the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It’s American crew dropped just one piece of ordinance that day: the first combat-deployed atomic bomb. Beneath them on the streets of the city, 240,000 Japanese died within the hour. One single bomb extinguished human life withContinue reading “The False Peace of the Atomic Age”
Category Archives: Future
Eyes On The Future
Amazon went public in 1997. Imagine if you had invested in the company then. At first offering, the price of an individual share was just $18. Some very rough math tells us that if you purchased 100 shares in 1997 (an investment of $2,000) you’d be sitting on close to $250,000 today. Too bad timeContinue reading “Eyes On The Future”
Revolutionary Jesus
2020. What a year. We’re not even finished yet. Maybe you, like me, have found yourself using words like “unprecedented” or “it’s never been like this” to describe your life right now. Before we rush to use these words and phrases, let’s pause. Is anything happening right now actually new? The original iPhone was new.Continue reading “Revolutionary Jesus”
A Millennial Pastor On The Next Generation
Don’t buy the press about the next generation. After being in the trenches with the church of the future, its clear Jesus is still on the move. In short, be excited; the future is bright! God is raising up the generation behind us to go beyond us for His glory. Millennials are not the futureContinue reading “A Millennial Pastor On The Next Generation”
Our Spaceship Earth
Earth is home to people, and people matter to Jesus. Apollo 8 shocked the world in 1968. A mission that was supposed to bring man to the moon also brought Earth to man. The amazing Earthrise photo was front page news around the world. We had never seen ourselves and our planet this way before. FastContinue reading “Our Spaceship Earth”
Don’t Waste Your Lockdown
We are works in progress, and God finishes what He starts Football taught me life. It was one school of many that can teach, from art and film to music or fashion. For me, my life school was football. High school football in Florida is a year-round commitment. But one week out of 52 stood outContinue reading “Don’t Waste Your Lockdown”
How We Endure
Let “we” take the place of “me” 100 years ago, an expedition of 28 men spent an entire Antartic winter trapped in their ship — the fitly named Endurance. Suddenly, dreams of discovery became a story of survival. They never reached Antartica, but they were successful in a better way. After ice crushed their ship, Earnest Shackleton ledContinue reading “How We Endure”
Pandemic Paranoia
Faith is paranoia in reverse. Coronavirus spreads and so does paranoia. But this paranoia is not new, it’s just been hidden from view; it was hidden while life was good and “under control”. Coronavirus is exposing the paranoia that’s been there all along, running in the deep currents of our souls. What is our way outContinue reading “Pandemic Paranoia”
Saying “Yes” to What Matters
What matters most to us takes the most sacrifice from us. It was May 1927. On a dark & damp New York morning, a single engine monoplane bounced into the air at muddy Roosevelt Field, barely clearing the trees at the end of the runway It’s pilot, Charles Lindbergh, was alone. Over the next 33 hours,Continue reading “Saying “Yes” to What Matters”
Walt Disney Knew Something
Before Walt Disney, cartoons were like sugar. They held you over while you waited for the main meal, the feature reel. Cartoons then were full of cheap laughs and little depth. Disney proved with Snow White that cartoons could deliver something more than a laugh. They could carry a story. The heart traffics in stories,Continue reading “Walt Disney Knew Something”
Jared Stacy 