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We too often despise the little we have available, but time and experience have often taught us that multiplication and leverage have been built into the fabric of God's universe by God Himself and that when Jesus and His words activate those laws, miracles are on the horizon. Ours is to stop despising, hoarding, and…

We want the power that comes from having God on our side. If that is not readily available, we will find a God that will be or we will create one. We are predisposed through our old nature to accumulate and celebrate our own power and wield it over others … even spiritual power ……

In John 6, Jesus has been asked for big signs, bigger than the mass feedings, bigger than walking on water, bigger than calming the sea, more like daily food for the rest of everyone's life. "Lord, always give us this bread," they say after asking "What sign will you perform then, that we may see…

  It was Thomas Fuller who penned, ""They say so is half a lie." Fuller was a year younger than I am now when he died in 1661, but he lived long enough to grasp this reality. I have as well. I have sensed it for some time. Those who say, "they say," are really…

I am no scientist. One might argue whether or not I am a philosopher. I am more of a philosopher than a scientist at any rate, sometimes one who enjoys philosophical inquiry about the nature of science. I have studies the scientific method. It facilitates its own kind of inquiry into questions of "how," "when,"…

… for those who are teetering on hope, who are longing for hope, who are hopeless, hopeful, or hope-deficient …

    Who are MY people? Jesus defines that for us. Who is my neighbor? He speaks clearly to that question. I stand with them because I am one of a company of people of faith who believe that faith in God will transform our communities, transform lives, and transform hate into love, suspicion into…

"Where there are no doubts, no questions, no perplexities, there can be no growth into the regions where He would have us walk. Doubts are the only means through which He can enlarge our spiritual selves." -George MacDonald Doubts giving birth to deeper faith. This is the ministry of perplexity. This is the simplicity of…

    Severe discipline is a way of describing tough, hard, strenuous training. If you get it, it is because God considers you qualified for it. It means He has confidence in you, in His ability to qualify you more deeply through that training for the purposes He wishes to realize through you. Embrace it.…

  Laying the American ideal of rugged individualism and strictly personal sin and forgiveness aside for a moment, let us revisit the concept of collective sin, repentance, and piety that walks alongside the personal When we say we have no need to confess and repent of the sins of our fathers of former generations from…