Every time someone is baptized, every time bread is broken and wine poured, every time a sinner hears, “Your sins are forgiven in Christ,” Pentecost happens again.
06/05/25
They were still praying, trusting, and hoping. Why? Because they knew who was with them and who was for them: the risen Christ.
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01/19/16
Without getting into specifics, I have suffered a loss that seemed at times unbearable. I cried. I pleaded. I questioned. I prayed. I drank. Rinse. Repeat.
01/18/16
Recently at the Golden Globes, Jim Carrey took to the stage to present the award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Though his short, humorous speech got a lot of people laughing, I don't doubt that the poignancy of his words also got a lot of people thinking.
01/15/16
It may seem easy to believe in the God who changes water into wine, but it is not. For when man is at his happiest, he thinks the least of the true source of his joy.
01/11/16
These words sum up the whole person and work of our Messiah. Here is the Gospel in Hebrew.
01/06/16
A star appears in the East. A spotlight over its Creator. A single constellation bows over that Light of Light from whom darkness flees.
01/05/16
I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.
12/30/15
The biblical witness is clear: all the so-called gods and lords and idols who are the object of people’s devotion, to whom they offer their sacrifices, to whom they pray, whom they call God and Lord, are sadly nothing but a front for the father of lies.
12/30/15
There are so many paradoxes that we can appreciate as we seek to grasp more of the meaning of the miracle of Christmas.
12/28/15
Isn’t it strange how the Jesus we end up with bears such a striking resemblance to ourselves? Our Jesus thinks as we do, acts as we act, speaks as we speak.
12/28/15
O bloody town of Bethlehem,
How shrill we hear thee cry.
Your mothers shriek while fathers weep
The graveyard lullaby.
12/25/15
It had just been a few weeks in my friend’s life since he had been converted to the Christian faith. He was very much still learning the ropes of what it meant to be a Christian.
12/21/15
On that night in Bethlehem so long ago, not even your mother who held you in her arms understood that you had come to turn the world upside down in a through-the-looking-glass sort of way.
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