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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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 …
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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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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Reading Time: 5 minutes Father’s Day by it’s very nature is not all that jazzy of a holiday. Dad’s are really hard to buy …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes After we buried my dad, my world was as dark as death. Every time we visited the cemetery, I would …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Fear not! God has been here before. God stands ready, waiting for us—the orchestra—to pause and let the Soloist play. Unfortunately, if we play on, heedless to the signal, we leave God no room to perform. The musical score lies before us. Our participation with God in the silence can transform our fear to hope. The choice is ours.
Reading Time: 6 minutes I’m not a miracle snob. I’ll take them as they come. I am grateful for the many times God has used modern medicine to deliver a miracle in my life. In 2015 I had a heart attack while in a doctor’s office hooked up to an EKG. God and science saved my life that day.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Jesus came not with thunder and lightning but with dimples and folds.
Reading Time: 3 minutes During my heart attack, all I had was a prayer. As the Barr Brothers hint, prayer is poverty and riches.