The Arrangement
As It Was in the Beginning A father had two sons. One was named Adam and the other was Adam the Second. The…
Category: Meditations
Lord willing? For certain He is.
“Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”Jesus answered, “I am willing; be cleansed” (Matthew 8:1-3). In this exchange is the…
The Gospel versus “You always…”
Once a possible failure, always a possible failure. This has rankled since I wrote it in my answer to the question, Could Jesus…
Persistence pays: I can see clearly now
God responds to persistence. Jesus teaches this, first in a lesson and then, like any good teacher, in live settings. The teaching and…
Jesus calls “them,” but not me. Think again.
Jesus has a disturbing way of broadening our understanding of life. For instance, murder is more than killing someone, it’s being angry with…
A word from Jesus that settles doubt
“It cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem” (Luke 13:33). If you wonder how believing in someone who lived 2,000…
A New Year’s Wish: Bless God with joy
My almost five-year-old grandson was playing nearby and suddenly started running toward me. “I want to hug you,” he said. Jack ran into…
God comes in the unexpected
There was no crib or bassinet, no cushion beneath soft sheets, no soothing lullabies from a bobbing mobile. The bed was a hewn,…
How Jesus restores my joy
Great joy came to the world upon the birth of Jesus, and joy comes back to me when I read the prayer of…
The extravagance of God
I called them “whirlybirds” when I was young. Now they are weed-seeds. At the end of my rake a potential forest slumbers where…