Dear Church Family, I saw this cartoon in a magazine the other day. It shows a man sitting in an office cubicle with a beard of stinging insects. Perched around him are a variety of flying creatures. His boss approaches and says: “Roger, I think it’s time we had a little talk about the birds…

Dear Church Family, I like aphorisms, slogans, sayings of all kinds. One of my favorite three-part sayings relates to our faith. Here it goes: “Christianity is a venture, not an event, a process, not a point in time, a dash, not a dot.” Anyway, I took a run through my neighborhood the other day —…