The Strange Way I Came to Trust God and How You Can Too
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was young, my Uncle Simon was the most spiritual man I knew. He talked about God all the …
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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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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.
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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How Does God’s Perfect Love Drive Out Your Deepest Fear?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Jerry Seinfeld once joked that if most people’s number one fear is public speaking while death is their number two, …
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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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