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...
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Trusting God When Church Life Changes
A post for my friends @ Renew.org When church life changes because of situations out of our control, how can we use the season as an...
Remembering Pentecost
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven...
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...
The Power and the Beauty of the Psalms in History
I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will consider all your works and meditate on all...
When the Groom Prepares His Bride
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband (Rev...
Gathered in Prayer
For our Tuesday gathering, I selected three groups gathered before God in prayer from the New Testament in order for us to identify the...
What Today’s Disciples Can Learn from the First Disciples
Being a successful Christian businesswoman isn’t something that just happens—there is a becoming involved. As I’m sure Mary Whelchel...
The Dispersed of God
“I don’t belong in this world,” the 88-year-old woman lamented, frustrated with modern technology. I empathized with the sentiment,...