God’s dream for humanityDid you ever play the game who or what is missing? In elementary school, I can remember sitting around the circle with my class. One student would go into the hallway. While that student was in the hallway, the teacher would chose a student in the circle to “hide.” Maybe they would hide in the closet or the bathroom.…
Brilliant Star-Filled VisionToday is the eleventh day of Christmas. Tomorrow, Epiphany is the culmination, the last of the twelve days of Christmas. We conclude our feasting and weekending for days, all in the name of the Christ child, and we receive God’s revelation. Beginning, before his birth, the Magi, the astronomers from Persia, travelled across miles to find the Christ child. They…
Students have a long history of prophetically calling out the needs of their communities and urging others to transformational action. A dynamic and reflective season like the years of college provides the ideal stage for students to yearn for a connection between the call of Jesus and the world they know. Four college students began the radical act of sitting at the…
Thanksgiving ChairIn college, I worked for J.C. Penney’s in the credit, catalog, and customer service department. Anyone who has worked retail knows this is a place to come for all manner of reasons within the department store. If you need to pick up or do store or catalog returns, you would wind your way through the lines. If you have questions about…
Shine your Light: Regular TestimoniesHave you ever been sitting in your home at night with the lights all on, perhaps watching television or putting a puzzle together, reading a book or eating dinner, when the lights suddenly(clap) out? And there you are – in the dark. You wait a moment. Wait – hoping that the lights will just flicker back on. Wait…
Blessed AssuranceThis week, our son Peter, asked an interesting question: How do you know that God is with you, if you can not see God? Kids say the darnedest things. Often, they ask the questions we have been holding or afraid to ask. Lest you think, my life is any different than yours. We were driving along on our way to Target,…
Don’t you just love a crisp, fresh, green grape? It’s refreshment. You take a handful of green grapes and then,, pop them in your mouth one by one. Enjoying the explosion of slight sweetness. One green grape after another. You could almost close your eyes as you eat them. That second of delight. Then it happens! EWH! The sour grape! The sweet…
Half Truth: God wouldn’t give you more than you can handleThis week, we continue in our series about half truths – those colloquial phrases that sound bibl-ish. We are sure that we could find them somewhere in the Bible, if we just kept looking! We have heard the clichés from those around us. There is a kernel of accuracy and truth in…
I enjoy church signs. They give you food for thought. And sometimes for a different reason than the church intends. This week, I saw this sign: The Bible hasn’t change. Have you? It was clear to me the church who posted the sign intended one thing: The Bible is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And you should be too. But I…