WHEN GOD MOVES

WHEN GOD MOVES

Yesterday, Jan and I went to see the movie Jesus Revolution. The history of the movie was part of my life. As the movie progressed, I saw the kind of gatherings where I would have been present amidst a sea of young faces. We all craved God’s presence and spent...

ASSEMBLING ALL THE PARTS

Everything in this world is connected. Nothing is isolated. All the assembled parts are connected to outcomes, either good or bad. This morning, I was prompted to write this post when I read a news report of what is called the “Judgment Day” aircraft.  This...

THE FAILURE OF RELIGIOUS ETIQUETTE

It is becoming increasingly obvious we are moving toward a critical and dangerous juncture in human history. Despair will increase when options for escape narrow and people become desperate. This is not the time to seek out the counsel of the religious equivalent of...

THE CALL OF DUTY

In the life of faith, there will be times when we must run ahead of what has become familiar, predictable, and expected of us. This moving ahead is not always a physical move. It could be initiated by a deeper revelation of how we see God’s Kingdom or a change in our...

THE UNTHINKABLE

There’s a word we use to describe something that is too horrible to consider. We call it unthinkable. It’s unthinkable because if it happened to our family, our church, or our nation we would experience something so painful, life as we know it would radically...