Life, Friendship, Writing, and Long-COVID
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dealing with long-COVID has forced me to re-recognize how human I am, at least as much as I can admit. …
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Why Does Life Feel Like God is Playing a Cosmic Game with Us?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Where is God when you need him? I know history is rife with troubled times but right now sure weighs …
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Monday Psalm: I’ve Got Those Post Resurrection Sunday Blues
Reading Time: 3 minutes As I’ve written before, I believe the blues are modern psalms of lament. They name everyday pains and stresses with-in …
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How to Do More than Just Pray to Change the World: A Maundy Thursday Reflection
Reading Time: 6 minutes Prayer is a wrestling match, a hard conversation, more listening than talking. I know my prayers are too often just cosmic shopping lists for God to fulfill should God care to.
How Do You Answer When Death Asks You Impossibly Hard Questions?
Reading Time: 5 minutes I sat alone in the intensive care waiting room of Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver hungover with sadness and worry. …
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Sunday Psalm: Asking for Grace in an Unexpected Wait
Reading Time: 2 minutes At my home nestled near the mountains on the southwest edge of Denver, we’ve had nearly four feet of snow …
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Two Hopeful Truths about God Healing your Spiritual and Emotional Wounds
Reading Time: 6 minutes Rather than peering into a dark and dangerous future (which it often is), through God’s redemption of my pain, I see hope on each horizon.
What Is the Bible? A Confusing Text Book or a Brilliant Love Letter?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett exchanged over five hundred letters before their kindred passion for words and writing blossomed into …
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Want to Be More Like Jesus? Practice this One Simple Spiritual Discipline
Reading Time: 5 minutes When you read the biblical biographies of Jesus, what stands out to you? That though his life was short it …
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The Disastrous Case of Your Stolen Heart and How to Recover It: Part One
Reading Time: 5 minutes Once upon a time the children still believed in The Heart Man.* A myth about a dark and dangerous man …
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