Be Prepared with a Reply
Play to listen How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who...
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From Yom Kippur to Jesus
The Day of Atonement, ordained by God for observance by the tribes of Israel, spans from sunset Sunday until sunset Monday this year. On the
Zoe—Past, Present, and Future
How are the tenses of this abundant life we live in Christ to be viewed? (And I’m not referring to stress!) There are those who say,...
Wedded to the Christ in Hope
I have filled my Christmas season this year with contemplations of the Christ and His Bride. I’ve thought about the love Jesus has for...
A Confidence You Can Have for the Church
There is a lot of speculation about the survival of the church (coming from both internal and external sources). People talk. And...
The One Who Has Gone Before Us
“But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee” (Mark 14:28 NIV). Jesus, in speaking to His disciples prior to His death,...
The So-Much-More of the Gospel
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did...
Tick, Tock . . . Groan
The tick of the clock groans, as the old year runs out of time. I echo its groaning. As does all of creation—as it awaits its deliverance...
The day when reality replaces the need for remembering
Occupied by many challenges, what was it young Timothy needed to know most? The urging of his mentor likely mimicked what Paul himself...
Remembering His Assuring Words
Forty days counted out past Resurrection Sunday is a day marked for remembrance. Remembrance of the day, ages ago, when the Son of God...
What the Exile Can Teach Us about Returning to Church
My latest essay for Renew.org... Greater than the return of the hobbits to the Shire, greater than Dorothy waking in Kansas, even greater...
Remembering His Gracious Appearings
While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and...
They Remembered
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the...
Death Denying
Her green eyes pooled with tears as she tried to choke out the truthful words, "I'm dying." A lack of understanding, topped with fear,...
A Psalm for Remembrance
During an early morning Bible read, a particular morsel captured my attention. But it doesn’t lie within a verse to be referred to. It’s...
Remembering Rahab
Art used by permission from Christian Dare Art By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those...
An Easter to Remember (And Living Beyond a Pandemic When You’re Living in a Pandemic)
March 2020—early in the shutdown, much was unknown and uncertain. Here in Georgia at the time, many people thought the shutdown would...
When Being Stuck Doesn’t Seem So Temporary
Everybody I know feels stuck. Life seems to be on hold. We can’t move forward. And we can’t go back. We tarry here in the in-between....
Endurance: It Is in Us
There was once a musical called Stop the World I Want To Get Off. I’ve never watched it. But I’ve got to be honest with you, folks. That...
Surrounded in Isolation
In these days of cancellations and unfamiliar isolation, we find it necessary to look for ways to battle the real enemies of...
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