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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.

A Guatemalan Prayer

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. 

Immersive Van Gogh

WWIII, Disease, Earthquakes? How Does One Actually Prepare for Jesus’ Second Coming?

Reading Time: 6 minutes My first car was a pink Oldsmobile Delta 88 built the year I was born, 1956. It was a spectacle …

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Sunset in Hawaii

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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See, Speak, Hear No Evil

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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