Sunday Psalm: The Adventure of Saying Yes to Jesus
Reading Time: 3 minutes The day after Easter I launched out on what I’ve now called a Resurrection Adventure. You can read a more …
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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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What Does Resurrection Life Look Like to Us Unremarkable Saints?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Easter is an emotional contradiction for me. Each day of Holy Week stokes a flaring exhilaration. Slowly I journey through …
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Sunday Psalm: Easter Praise
Reading Time: 2 minutes Saviors have risen and fallen. But on the cross Jesus fell then rose. Weighted by the world but lifted by love.
Mixing Our Tears with Jesus’ Blood: A Good Friday Poem
Reading Time: 3 minutes So many stories about Mary the mother of Jesus portray her as angelically strong and a saint. But as a mother and widow how did she feel as she watched her son being crucified? My poem Mary’s Loss attempts to dig into her feelings of despair.
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.
Sunday Psalm: Seeing God in the Ordinary
Reading Time: 2 minutes O God who sees me, Life is full of unexpected and undetected gifts: My dog’s cold nose on my warm …
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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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 …