“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.” (Colossians 4:5) After a week of relaxing with my family in the Virgin Islands, it’s back to reality. Reality takes many forms. It comes in a pile of papers needing to be addressed. Ten loads of laundry to sort. People…
One of the fringe benefits of a 19-year career as a sportscaster was not necessarily free admittance into the games, although that was nice. It also provided opportunities to know my father better. You wonder, What does Lisa mean by that? People watched me on television and realized I was the little girl my dad,…
With assistance, the aging preacher slowly made his way up to the podium as one of the keynote speakers at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. Still recovering from a stroke and other medical issues, he was attached to an oxygen tank as he delivered his historical message on Sola Scriptura. I remembered back to my…
The Case for Christ movie is coming out April 7 and as I watched a screening of the movie at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, my mind drifted back to 2003 when I first met Lee and Leslie Strobel. I was volunteering for a Campus Crusade for Christ ministry that reached the workplace and was…
The Shack. The book made a lifelong impression on me and now the movie has done the same. When I read the book, I was in seminary drafting a thirty-page paper on what I believed about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. What was my theology? My degree didn’t require the Systematics class but I…