In the Midst of Pain, How Can You Be Sure God Loves You?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Silence is often the language of love.
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Simple but Powerful Daily Disciplines for Thriving in this Crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
Why I’m in Therapy. And Maybe You Should Be Too.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Notice everyone Jesus blessed is needy. Being blessed is more than a sassy ironic Southern idiom. For Jesus it meant bowing to receive God’s personal touch of grace. We cannot receive God’s blessing standing tall and proud, unwilling to recognize our need for God’s grace. It is admitting I can’t do this alone but I can do it with you.
Waiting on God in the Doctor’s Office
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.
Waiting for Communion Holy Saturday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting. How did Jesus’ disciples feel on that dark Saturday after Jesus was crucified? Remembering the emptiness, grief, fear, disbelief, …
Receiving the Mystery: How Not Knowing Brings Peace
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first time I experienced the Grand Canyon, I stood back from its precipice in child-like awe stunned by …
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Listening to God: A Matter of Life and Death
Reading Time: 4 minutes Through Kalista’s death God taught me to listen. Through listening God is continually renewing my life!
Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Me
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have this recurring day dream where I’ve died and gone to heaven. I’m standing in line, in the clouds, …
My Heart Attack, the Barr Brothers, and Prayer
Reading Time: 3 minutes During my heart attack, all I had was a prayer. As the Barr Brothers hint, prayer is poverty and riches.
Fathers’ Day Remembered and Redeemed.
Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 17, 1968, we buried my father in Fort Logan National Cemetery. Fathers’ Day after that became only a …