Sunday Psalm: The Imago Dei in Human Face
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s common to experience God sightings in sunsets, geese in flight, ocean waves, and other aspects of nature. Nature reflects …
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How Your Expectations of God Could Kill Spiritual Growth But Expectancy Gives You Life
Reading Time: 6 minutes People and dust choked the road as they vacated the city after Passover. Jerusalem once so full of life now …
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A Sunday Psalm of Confession of our Goodness and Brokenness
Reading Time: 3 minutes Confession is difficult. It’s an act of vulnerability. To paraphrase the Miranda Rights statement: We remain silent because anything we …
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Sacrifice Misunderstood: The Main Reason People Avoid or Sacrifice so Little in Lent
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s your favorite Jesus saying? Love God and love your neighbor is an especially admired one. Hard to find fault …
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A Sunday Psalm of Surrender and Sacrifice
Reading Time: 3 minutes When something is made common or even popular, it often loses its meaning and power. There are many examples of …
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.
Woke Up This Mornin’ with those Desperate Prayin’ Blues
Reading Time: 3 minutes I love the blues. Not the feeling. The poetry/musical style that gives the feeling voice. Basically the blues are modern …
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A Sunday Psalm: God’s Mercies Are not Morning Bound
Reading Time: 2 minutes God set light in the heavens to mark a boundary against the dark. God set praise in our hearts to …
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A New Sunday Psalm: The I Am With You in the Night
Reading Time: 2 minutes The oldest and most powerful prayers of the people of God in need are the Psalms. And since the earliest …
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How to navigate the Pain and Pleasure of daily life simultaneously
Reading Time: 5 minutes New Year’s Day cracked clear and Colorado blue, the kind of day people write love poems to. But I woke …
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