INTERPRETING THE SOUNDS OF GROANING

There is a level of despair that cannot be expressed with words. It is a guttural utterance emanating from a person who is at the end of their rope not knowing what to do next. It’s a sound made when people experience the unexpected loss of a loved one, the...

ANOTHER KIND OF SUDDENLY

We like to talk, even prophesy, about the sudden moves of God. The consideration of those sudden moves produces hope-filled conversations and raises our eyes to the horizon of the future in expectancy of what God might do. There is another kind of suddenly.  That...
KEEPING THE CROSS IN SIGHT

KEEPING THE CROSS IN SIGHT

Some preachers and teachers are instructing people to not focus on the Cross of Christ because it creates a religious culture of death. That mistaken interpretation and its application is a grave error. I was recently hiking the trails above our home and stopped to...

OFFENDED BY THE WRONG THING

Today, calling oneself a follower of Christ and being offended by someone who wants to protect the life of an innocent baby living and developing within the presumed security of a mother’s womb is weak philosophical reasoning. We are living in one of the most...
TOGETHER IN HIS PRESENCE

TOGETHER IN HIS PRESENCE

Yesterday, Jan and I did something we have wanted to do for a long time.  We ordered the headstone for our gravesite wanting to spare our kids the hassle of that process when the time comes. In the historic pioneer cemetery where we will be buried are some...