Sterling Griggs

If you are 40 years or older, do you remember when you got your first mobile phone? When I was in high school my dad purchased one for the car and it came in a bag the size of a metropolitan phone book. There was really no room for it in the car and it was anything but wireless. How about your first experience with computers? In the mid-80's we purchased an Apple IIE, which had just enough internal storage to house a little over 2 pages of a term paper before I would have to print it out, erase what I had previously typed, and pick up where I left off. When we got a television with a remote control, I couldn't believe how awesome it was not to  have to walk across the room to turn one of the few channels that we could pick up. And then there was cable TV... Yes, life used to feel much simpler and not just by technological standards. It seemed that we played outside a whole lot more when we were kids, ate more family meals together, took more family trips together, and in gen...

I want to confess that I am a bit of a skeptic these days. But I'm not alone. Anyone who has an opinion - which includes any person who is breathing right now - has an idea of the way things should be. When we see others living out their ideas in ways that run contrary to what we envision in our own minds, then we start to doubt the validity of the beliefs of others. Or we even doubt ourselves. A couple of years ago I stepped away from a staff position at a local church. I needed a break from church ministry, but it wasn't because of anything the people of the church had done. Those people are still my friends and I continue to love and pray for them as they do for me. What I was truly in need of was a break from myself. You see, I had gotten to a point where I was being so driven in a direction where I believed God was leading me that it wouldn't have been fair or right for myself or the church to stay where I was. There are many who become skeptical of church and ...