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  • When God Laughs

    It is not that He enjoys our pain, but that He sees the irony of our arrogance and it stirs that perfect emotion in Him that we experience imperfectly as poetic justice.

  • Running to God – Reflections on Psalm 38

    He runs to God in worship — whatever outlet of worship is available and thrusts the guilt and all the accompanying insecurity, despair, depression, feelings and reality of persecutions, and anything connected or perceived to be connected to sin before God.

  • The Wide Place

      Where is the wide place, the place of latitude, creativity, individual expression, freedom, and joy? It is not in the realm of structure-less ambiguity or undefined purpose. It is within the safety and stability of truth. There we find a wide place. " and I shall walk in a wide place,for I have sought…

  • Trembling and Astonishment

      "And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." – Mark 16:8 To be seized by trembling and astonishment is no small thing. It is fearsome, but it is not to be avoided … no indeed ……

  • Coming to the End to Begin Again

    "At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever…" – Daniel 4:34, ESV To come to the end of such days is to come to ourselves and our senses with a…

  • Risen Indeed

    It is scandalous… he walked in. He stared into the mouth of death and entered the sepulchre … He believed before he understood. Understanding would take some time. Believing took one moment.

  • Doubting Thomas?

    Mine was not an optimistic faith. That came later. Mine was despairing loyalty. So, when he said he was going back to Judea where people were waiting … conspiring … actively seeking to kill him, I said, “let’s go.”

  • He Told You

    The disciples did not need new information to understand the resurrection; they needed the illumination that comes when God suddenly turns on the lights in our personal experience of His grace.

  • Show and Tell

    “This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.” – John 21:14 My favorite event in the early years of my schooling was neither recess nor lunch; it was “Show and Tell. “ Students would bring objects from home and tell stories about…

  • Blowing Smoke in the Face of Deity

    I like to think that Nebuchadnezzar became a God-fearing, Yahweh-worshiping convert to truth and that he remained so. I believe that God takes our slightest gesture of “yes” to His invitation and continues the process of drawing us closer and closer to Himself as we take baby steps in His direction.