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Glenn's Blog
Enjoy Senior Pastor, Glenn McDonald's musings on a wide variety of topics.
The Impact of a Faithful Life
07/30/09
Earlier this summer a man by the name of Rich Retallic lost control of his light truck on a rain-slick stretch of Interstate 15 in Idaho...
If Only, The Two Deadliest Words in the English Language
07/09/09
Beware a pair of words that have the power to steal your life: If only. Relationship expert Les Parrott asserts, “Once you begin a sentence with if only, you have...
Anything but Lukewarm
06/18/09
Is Laodicean a winning word? Kavya Shivashankar certainly thinks so. The 13-year-old Kansas girl correctly spelled Laodicean to win last month’s Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Kavya’s rewards included a...
Movies that Make Us Cry
05/22/09
That’s something to think about the next time you see a guy in the theater brush away a tear and he says, “Oh, it’s just a little something stuck in my eye.” I bet it’s not. Author and theologian Frederick Buechner ...
Living with Cats
04/22/09
Most of my life has been shared with housecats. The other day I tried to tally them up. Between my earliest years growing up in Indianapolis and the years my family has lived here in Zionsville, I’ve been on petting terms with at least 20 ...
It's a Donut World
04/10/09
America is a donut world. There’s no center to it. That statement has nothing to do with pastry and everything to do with the absence of something or Someone at the center of reality that makes sense of everything else. From the ...
Follow the Clues
03/26/09
Easter is approaching. Once again honest inquirers, the media, radical skeptics, and not a few fretful followers of Jesus will entertain grave doubts about the status of a certain grave. I don’t know many people who wrestle with doubts ...
What in the World were They Thinking?
03/12/09
I have often wondered how previous generations could be so blind for so long to the most obvious sins. Why weren’t they able to see the inherent wrong-headedness of some of their most cherished values? It’s unnerving to read sermons ...
My Last Sermon
02/25/09
A few weeks back our Sunday morning study of the book of Acts brought us to the account of Stephen, the first martyr (after Jesus) in the history of Christianity. Stephen’s career as an early church leader was meteoritic: a brilliant flash ...
A New Kind of Community
02/13/09
As a middle-aged Baby Boomer I have vivid memories of a sociological experiment in the 1960s and 70s: Young, idealistic Americans moved close together to form communes. These experimental communities would provide the joy of a simple, voluntary ...
Is it Good to Be the King?
01/28/09
A few years back, when Cuban leader Fidel Castro was feeling considerably feistier, he joined other prominent communist leaders in a sandlot baseball game. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez was on the mound when Castro came to the plate. Chavez ...
A Refresher Course in Humility
01/14/09
Every now and then it’s helpful to experience what it’s like for the shoe to be on the other foot – and for that matter, the socks as well. A few weeks back I was walking our two exuberant Australian Shepherds on the Zionsville ...
Choose Wisely
01/01/09
In the climactic scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harrison Ford’s adventuring archeologist enters the secluded chamber that has long been home to the Holy Grail – the cup from which Jesus purportedly drank at the Last ...
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