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This isn’t How it’s Supposed to End…Revisited
A devotion I gave on Good Friday, 2023, at a Seven Words service, a service of devotions on each of the seven final statements of Jesus from the cross. Plus a video.
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Let There Be Light
My word for this year is Illuminate, a word rich with meanings. Here I share my word as well as visions and goals for 2025--all surrendered to his Light.
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An Artist’s Show and Tell
A gathering of Christian artists made me consider the power and vulnerability of sharing my creativity with others.
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Meditations with an Ink Pen
While waiting for surgery and biopsy results for a melanoma on my ear, I picked up a new habit of writing Scripture. Over and over and over...
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The Power of Loving Jesus
I’m about to release a book called Seen and Invited: Meeting Jesus on the Dusty Roads. The book walks through Jesus’s healings and interactions with people he met along the way–the blind he healed, the lepers he touched, the dead he raised. The purpose of the book is simply to help readers see Jesus’s deep Shepherd love for us and to know that love is still ours today. The book is somewhat light on practical application. So, the question is does loving Jesus and understanding Jesus’s love for me help me travel the rough paths of my life? Unfortunately, I got to test this in the past few weeks. During…
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Wondering Where God is? Try Turning Around
In Exodus God sets the stage for the journey with his people, including the guidance of the cloudy pillars. He still guides us as carefully today.
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The Plane isn’t Going Down–the Problem of Turbulence
When faced with unemployment, I felt like our plane was going down. Instead, God pointed out to me that it's turbulence, and it's inevitable in every life.
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Turning Down an Invitation
After leading a group through a book on accepting Jesus's invitation for healing and wholeness, I promptly turned down an invitation for healing and wholeness. (Sigh)
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On Being Whole
I posited in a soon-to-be-released book that Jesus longs to make us whole. The Bible doesn't explicitly talk about us being made whole, so here's my take on the idea...
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What if the Great Commission isn’t so Great?
What if the Great Commission is equal in weight to resting in Jesus and loving my neighbor? Maybe our focus has been wrong for long time...
