How hospitable are the spaces and the places you inhabit and the graces you offer? How do you perceive your role there…….to force out, to keep out, to reach out, or to invite in? How did you get there? Is it a Good Place that is growing and enhancing the...
I had pondered why Jesus was born in the line of Judah instead of that of Jacob’s firstborn, Reuben, as might have been expected based on the Jews’ emphasis on the firstborn’s rights. On the surface of it I didn’t see the rationale. I knew in my spirit that the answer...
I had a call from someone who has struggled with depression for a decade or longer. A couple of times it has taken him to the dark, despairing edge of suicidal ideations. Thankfully, God was always there to bring him back from the precipice of destruction. He had an...
Lee Stroebel, author of The Case For Christ, talks about his wife’s conversion to Christianity and how he set out to disprove the Resurrection of Jesus in order to “rescue” her from the “cult” she’d joined. Her Christianity caused...
I have a limited edition print (75/500) called “The Old Woman” painted by Mary Shelton Burson in 1982. The date on the print is 11/20/1990. You can see she is sitting in a wheelbarrow reading something. I bought it, probably in 1990, from a...
Today as I sat in a women’s Bible study, based on Paul’s confession of his “thorm in the side” in 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, in which Jennifer Rothschild talks about “thorns” in our lives and how we respond to them, I was reminded of a...
