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4 mins read|04/03/14In this particular church, all sins are forgiven, but some sins are more forgiven than others.
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4 mins read|04/02/14I say I was dead before Jesus called me, but actually, I was worse off than that. Imagine a corpse who is at war with life, who is an enemy of the Life-giver. That was me.
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8 mins read|03/31/14“There’s my beautiful mermaid!” Those were the words spoken by my husband the other morning as he approached me while I waited by our car in the parking lot of the Y.
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9 mins read|03/27/14I hoped like mad they’d spit in my face and laugh me all the way out of town. I wouldn’t have even cared if a mob of them had beat me to death in a back alley. But heavens no, I couldn’t be that lucky.
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7 mins read|03/18/14Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? You are, who are flesh of flesh and bone of bone with Jesus, our Jacob.
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4 mins read|03/14/14We love because we find in the beloved something that is lovable. We see, we know, and then we love. Or, at least, we promise to love.
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8 mins read|03/11/14Though I had studied four prior years at that institution, the one course I had with him shaped my pastoral care more than any other. Ken Korby was this pastor’s name, and when I grew up, I wanted to be just like him.
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7 mins read|03/05/14Of all the words this woman ever spoke, these alone are chiseled forever into the stone of holy writ, and into the church’s memory. Mrs. Job becomes the patron saint of quick-tongued women.
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5 mins read|02/21/14God must kill me. He’s got to slay me, put me six feet under, and shovel dirt atop my corpse. Then, it’s like, “Hey, I finally understand! You’re God and I’m not.
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13 mins read|02/19/14Ever experience a congregation with the word "Grace" in its name that was nonetheless ironically ungracious and legalistic? I have.
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31 mins read|02/10/14Sinner: I see. I see for the first time. It’s clear to me. You died for me and for my sin. You took my verdict. God: I did.
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9 mins read|11/26/13Eat, yes, but season your turkey with the ashes of repentance as it preaches just how little your faith is, just how little you trust God, just how little you believe the Father is good to you.
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