For Our Youth
In Search of the Eternal Buzz
Bumper Sticker Philosophy Some of you are way too young to remember when bumper stickers were popular. When I was younger, you could tell a lot about the person driving a car by the...
Wind-Chasers and Worshipers (6): Living with Mystery
Things We Cannot Understand We’ve been thinking about the futility of “Whyning”—the universal human impulse to ask Why about life’s painfully confusing and seemingly senseless mysteries....
Wind-Chasers and Worshipers (5): More Trouble with Whyning
Previously, we’ve suggested that in our never ending quest for human meaning, people love to ask “Why”. Either as geeks, who want to know all the information behind it all, or as gurus,...
The Trouble with Whyning (1)
(Ecclesiastes 1:12-18) Sisyphus and Camus I don’t remember what he did to get into such trouble, but in ancient Greek legend, Sisyphus got some mythical gods miffed at him. As punishment,...
Windchasers and Worshipers (3): Solomon’s Scientific Pursuit of Meaning
(Part 3 of a twice-a-month series aimed at teens, twenty-somethings, and old folks like me.) Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:11 Help in the Middle of Meaninglessness Ecclesiastes and I go way...
Wind-chasers and Worshipers (2): Chasing the Wind
Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:1-14 Zeno Zapped I don’t like riddles. My brain freezes over when someone zings me with a confusing question with no easy answer. Zeno, on the other hand, loved...
Proclaiming God’s might to the coming generation!
Welcome to our From My Youth page devoted to young people and children. We will use this platform to offer helpful insight for the challenges of faith that our young people (teens on up) face today. This will include an ongoing series of next-generation oriented reflections on the book of Ecclesiastes, called “Windchasers and Worshipers”. It will also include updates on our soon to be released children’s book, An ABC Prayer to Jesus, and lots more over time!