Adventure Life is an adventure, not a competition. I am not striving to accumulate more wealth and resources than my fellow man or to beat out the competition. My desire is to live fully in the plans and purposes God has for me. This is the adventure. And Jesus encourages me in this journey to stay vigilant and awake …
Darkness and a Sky Full of Stars
Darkness; utter, bleak, and desolate. Its sheer volume is overwhelming, like a vortex attempting to swallow everything in its presence. It is the giant in the room like the invading hordes of hell. It is the overwhelming presence of Sauron’s army from the land of Mordor or the imposing Death Star and the Empire behind it. Darkness comes in many …
Perhaps
As I was reading Scripture recently and praying over what I read, I realized how my experiences and circumstances have led me to doubt his faithfulness and to doubt that he will answer my prayers. In Job 33, the youngest of Job’s friends rebukes Job for his complaining and refutes his complaint. “But I tell you, in this you are …
The Fascinating Bewildering Practice of Prayer
Introduction, Part 2 In his book, How to Pray, Pete Greig writes that he began a 24/7 prayer movement based on two discoveries. The first was the realization that prayer was probably the most important thing in the world. The second was the realization that he was terribly poor at it. These are the same realizations that my friends and …
Dead Ends, Detours and a World of Wonders
The fascinating bewildering practice of prayer – Introduction, Part 1 Why am I writing a book on prayer? The longer I live the more I realize how little I know about so many things. This includes things for which I have studied or worked very hard for and things which hold great interest for me. For instance, I graduated at the …
The Dash
Life is a gift. One which we can’t control. Our breath is not our own. It comes to us as a gift. Really all is a gift. We struggle and strain, we gather and build, grasping for our place in the world. Yet every good thing comes to us free of charge with no strings attached. Many of us …
Our Tiny Enterprise
“Shine down, shine down on our tiny enterprise.” – from Healing Waters, by Mister Mister It is helpful to acknowledge that ours is a tiny enterprise. If we center our worlds around us, we lose perspective and become consumed with ourselves; our family, our finances, our hobbies, our nation, and wherever else our interests may lie. The truth is …
Let us pray
I believe we could all agree that if you are counted among those who believe in prayer, now would be a good time to pray. Today is as tumultuous as any time that I can remember. I was born in the early 60’s and though that was the decade that witnessed the march from Selma to Montgomery, the Kennedy and …
Honesty – It’s still the best policy! (thoughts from the book of Job)
We could all use some encouragement at a time like this. I found some recently in the unlikely place of the pages of Job. I like the book which may sound a bit morbid since its pages are filled with suffering. Yet it’s not the suffering that draws me, it’s the honesty. The friends who gathered to mourn with Job …
The Divine Spark
One of the greatest art masterpieces in the world is the frescoed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted each magnificent panel with a story from the book of Genesis with a focus on creation. In the center is the pinnacle of the painting and the crescendo of creation itself; God creating man. This familiar scene is known to many; …
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