What is common ground and why do we need to cultivate it? Finding common ground never means having to surrender the ground where you feel you must stand based upon principle. It is finding and recognizing the ground you share… Continue reading

Where God places a longing, God plants the possibility and the power within us. He has not made us to be ordinary, sedentary, or earth-bound. He has made us to soar. Continue reading

Image from Daniel Vickers' "Farmers and Fishermen", 1994. “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field … He that soweth the good seed is… Continue reading

What we believe does not alter reality. What we refuse to believe does not nullify it.  The current flows with overwhelming and sometimes invisible force in whatever direction it will.Will it will sweep me away or will I flow with… Continue reading

His ignition switch for God-consciousness was shooting out some sparks, but the conflict within him always kept the engine from turning over. Continue reading

  Here is a typical, unspoken, but real prayer: "Sorry God, I can't go there with you because it is outside of my neat little theological box of definitions and beyond my limited understanding of who You are." Theology is… Continue reading

Our Father in Heaven, God of the Universe, I begin this day in a state of seeking, hungry, thirsty, lowly and lifted. I come as a man washed and yet, desiring to enter the depths of the river and flow… Continue reading

It was a summer day in 2013. I walked into a room of 8-10 young people and was stunned by the silence. They were sitting together and not saying a word, a room full of people with a common goal… Continue reading

Do you feel you are out of options? Are you empty, drained, and devoid of strength. Has your inspiration fizzled, your motivation taken a vacation? Continue reading

We must abandon, once and for all, our score-book, time-sheet mentality with regard to Christian service.  Service is all about the One we serve and not about getting our just deserts.  Continue reading