This is the description of a man whose very life irks people. Wicked people get angry with him. They gnash their teeth. Their feelings about him are visceral and consuming. His life holds up a mirror to their greed… Continue reading

  I memorized this as a young teen and it burned a home into my soul where it has lived, thrived, and nurtured me for fifty years.   Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson   "Under the wide and starry sky… Continue reading

  I run, I leap, I fall, I plunge into the mystery. Certainty with redundancy has lost its radiance. It retains no power to attract my heart. Mystery envelops divinity and Divinity envelops mystery. Into that cloud I must go… Continue reading

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” – Luke 19:10 Gru, is a super-villain, in the 2010 film, "Despicable Me," who adopts three girls. His motives are entirely self-serving, but something… Continue reading

  Let me see if I get this flow correctly from Luke 17:1-10. If we follow the implications, the conversation might be something like this: 1) First – Jesus says to avoid sin, never be a stumbling block for others,… Continue reading

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." – I Corinthians 3:18 Refraction is… Continue reading

We are commissioned and challenged to ask ourselves what that means in our context, moment by moment, day by day. As we speak truth to power, let us do so with our own deeds, choices, and lives as well as… Continue reading

"By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on top of his staff." – Hebrews 11:21 (NKJV) He worshiped, leaning … Faith, in itself, is a kind of leaning. Blessing others,… Continue reading

The secret of endurance as discovered by Moses … "he endured as seeing Him who is invisible." (Hebrews 11:27b, NKJV) Seeing the invisible God. It really goes to the heart of faith for people of faith. We deal in that… Continue reading