THE AUTOPSY OF A LIE

THE AUTOPSY OF A LIE

When I worked as a homicide detective one of the most unpleasant of all my duties was attending an autopsy. It is a brutal but necessary procedure to discover the cause of a person’s death. What was once a living and breathing human being with hopes and dreams was...
THE CRASH SITE OF REDEMPTION

THE CRASH SITE OF REDEMPTION

Recently, I wrote about the intersection of history we have entered where spiritual deception, emotional instability, and mental illness are colliding with truth. The unresolved issues creating these collisions are being celebrated in the news and within the social...
THE STONE OF A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT

THE STONE OF A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT

This morning, I saw something I had not noticed in previous readings of chapter 8 of John’s Gospel. The chapter begins with a story of a woman caught in adultery. People picked up stones to kill her. The chapter ends with a similar response from people who did not...

THE GOD OF MERCY – THE GOD OF JUSTICE

When we read the story of Jonah it’s easy to focus only on the image of a large fish swallowing a reluctant preacher and the resulting national revival that took place. If we leave the story there and fail to connect the message of the two prophets, Jonah and...