Karen and I have a strange dream—we want to be homeless. Well, at least sort-of homeless. We want to sell our home when we retire, buy a larger Camper and live in it full time. We want to downsize, simplify, and serve. We talk of this and pray for this as if it meant a financial windfall, when actually, it means just the opposite. The real reason for it all is to live on less and hopefully, do more for the Kingdom of God. Now while this dream seems noble and we are truly exited about this possibility a few years down the road, there's a HUGE caveat attached to it. James describes this caveat this way: "Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year

I recently visited the Old First Congregational Church in Bennington, VT. My wife’s relatives helped start this church during the Great Awakening under Jonathan Edwards. It was surreal. I got tears in my eyes when we started the worship and sang hymns, some of which those early families no doubt sang so long ago. We even sat in a box pew with her family name etched in the memorial label on the side. Two hundred years of history...a legacy of value. Still, as much as this congregation has maintained certain traditions and a rich history, there were things they had released as well. At one point, the pastor compared Christian faith to "all the other great world religions." Edwards, who held ti