What unknown script is emboldened in the dash between the day of your birth and the day of your death? Continue reading

Is it conceivable that God would be angry at our prayers? Irritated? Perturbed? Cynical? The psalmist thought so and prayed, “O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?” (Psalm 80:4 ESV) READ MORE. Continue reading

Should a person always answer his or her critics? It is our impulse. We might feel that silence implies vacillation, lack of courage, or unwillingness to engage. Perhaps, sometimes, it does. At other times, it merely indicates a feeling that… Continue reading

"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams …For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow." – Langston Hughes   Indeed, we must dream… Continue reading

So Jesus tells Peter than he got it right and he got it from God — but to be careful how he tells it because the gospel must be seen and experienced in order to be fully understood and that… Continue reading

To ask, to seek, to dwell, to gaze, to inquire. I suppose you could mix them up, stir them around, or take them in reverse. You could do them all at once. You could take them in order. It is… Continue reading

What if we dedicated our freedom and independence to service of others, to being a good neighbor? What if we majored on neighborliness as an expression of appreciation for our country this year? What if this Independence Day, 2018, was… Continue reading

“…  When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering…” – Matthew 16:2-3 The poetic… Continue reading

The God who declares new things have come has declared  that the old is past! The Creator God has called us to righteousness. Righteousness! We have not been called to blindly aim and shoot, but to be taken by the… Continue reading

There are many good reasons for having a broken heart. Show me your broken heart and I can tell what drives you and ignites your passion for action. …. That kind of brokenness energizes us.,, Without it, we lost some… Continue reading