“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • Alpha and Omega – An Advent Meditation

    In a tiny bundle of newborn humanity is the sum total of all truth and meaning. In that crude cradle of creation lay the Creator of the universe.  Continue reading

  • Pain, Passion, Pardon, Prayer

      Photo by Aliyah Jamous on Unsplash   Show me your pain and I will show you your passion. It is the same and it is transforming, first, by transforming itself … into joy! Without the pain, there is no passion, Without… Continue reading

  • Snatched from the Fire

    And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire …. – Jude 1:23 When John Wesley was a very young child, the rectory at Epworth … Continue reading

  • For Others

        God give me hands and eyes for others. "For it is in giving that we receive …" Yes, it is. Only with an open had can I do either …And the same hand that gives, receives.Lord, guide my… Continue reading

  • Seven “P”s for a New Entrepreneurial Venture

    Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash I was honored to speak with yesterday at the Mentoring group of a local college seven years ago and I spoke from this outline:  It was from my napkin … some "P" words for starting a new… Continue reading

  • Come to the Party – An Advent Meditation

    It is a party, a Kingdom Party! It is the greatest party ever, not to be treated with contempt or indifference. If we do that, we don’t need to be thrown out, we’ve failed to really enter at all. We… Continue reading

  • “… they realized that he was speaking about them …” – An Advent Meditation

    "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the… Continue reading

  • Women of Disrepute

    Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.   What do Ruth, the Moabite, Rahab, the prostitute of Jericho, . Bathsheba, the adulteress, Tamar the accused, Mary, the young unmarried pregnant girl have in common? Disrepute and… Continue reading

  • A Thousand Years, an Advent Meditation

    We need to be remembering that a thousand years is nothing to God and, someday, will seem as nothing to us. A blessed Advent to you and to yours. Continue reading

  • Cleansing the Temple and Other Advent Mysteries

    Temple worship had become a big business and collaboration with illegitimate powers such as Herod had overwhelmed the meaning of the worship that the people were coming to the temple to bring.  In fact, sincere worshipers were being oppressed. Continue reading

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