STOPPING SELF-JUSTIFICATION
Richard J. Foster wrote in ‘Seeking the Kingdom”“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because […]
June 2020
PRACTICE RESURRECTION
Wendell Berry, wrote in, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front.” This is an excerpt:“So friends, every day do something that won’t compute…Give your approval to […]
A JAR OF WATER
The gospels record the story of the preparation for the Passover on the first day of The Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Gospel of Mark […]
S.O.S. …_ _ _ …
I recently had a dream about S.O.S. When I checked it out the next morning I learned that Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) an American artist […]
ANOTHER JESUS
This text from 2 Corinthians 11 is so important for us in this hour. “For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one […]
ANOTHER BRIDEGROOM
There is a sly and sneaky thing that can happen to us in our minds and in our thinking. It is the ability to be […]
THE WAY WE SEE
Frederick Buechner wrote, “If you look at a window, you see flyspecks, dust, the crack where Junior’s Frisbee hit it. If you look through a window, you see the […]
MERCY FOR ALL
“Oh, the depth of the richesboth of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!How unsearchable His judgmentsand untraceable His ways!For who has known the mind […]
CARRIED TO THE HEALER
There is a story in the Gospel of Mark 2 of Jesus “speaking the word” to some people who are gathered. Some friends of a […]