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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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 …
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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How Jesus Gives a Damn about our Suffering: A Maundy Thursday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first time I celebrated Easter as something more than bunnies and colored eggs was in 1973. I’d become a …
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A Prayer for Blessing the Work of our Hands
Reading Time: 3 minutes My first job at eleven years old was manning a massive industrial lawnmower and cutting the huge lawn for …
Praying Like a Child: A Childlike Prayer for You
Reading Time: 3 minutes Philip Yancey’s book Prayer: Does It make Any Difference? opens with this: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, …
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Winter Prayer: A Cry for Relief when Hope Is Frozen
Reading Time: 2 minutes A WINTER PSALM As winter yearns for spring, As a frozen river anticipates thaw, O Lord, We wait on you, …
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How God Rekindles Your Hope in Darkness
Reading Time: 5 minutes On December 31, 1977 I sat fidgeting with the buttons on my flannel shirt in The Red-Headed-Wildflower’s parent’s living room. …
Why See Fear as Your Best Friend not Hated Enemy
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” So claimed Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1933 Inaugural Address. …
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Seven Amazing Ways Our Puppy Taught Me How to Be Happy
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s hard to be cross with someone who exhibits that much enthusiasm for life. Misery may love company but tail-wagging creates a party.