3 Mar 2012
Authority
In the devils’ personal war on words, the word “authority” is one of his favorite victims. I think he chooses his targets based on how much God likes them and how important they are to God’s people. Read more…
23 Feb 2012
What is the Product of the Church?
I have been involved in way too many conversations about designing metrics to help measure and ultimately improve the effectiveness of “the church”. I struggle deeply with this conversation every time. When you set out to measure a thing, you must first begin to break it down into the kinds of things you want to measure. Read more…
18 Feb 2012
What is the Church?
Some of them stand with signs claiming that their venomous hate represents the God of the Universe. Some of them gather in buildings identified by signs and systems. Some of them claim the internet as their domain and their “flock”. Read more…
11 Feb 2012
I Forgot How to Dream
“I had lost the ability to dream, and it’s just now coming back”, she said, half smiling and half lamenting. Read more…
4 Feb 2012
Cardiac Optometrist
I saw it again on Twitter this week, the same thing I saw again and again when I spent my days as a marriage counselor. Another husband was perplexed by the confusion over what his wife said she needed, as compared to what he thought she needed. Read more…
28 Jan 2012
What Kind of God Makes All Things New by Dying?
Right outside the Old City of Jerusalem, about two blocks away from a bustling marketplace is a tomb. No one is in it.
20 Jan 2012
Death Again?
The year was 1983, and I was beginning a path to the great future I have always believed was ahead. Finally on the path to actually complete my education, I was home for Christmas break. Read more…
7 Jan 2012
Did God Really Say…?
How did we get in this mess? If you have read through any of my past posts you have heard my thoughts on the fall of man, and living from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Don’t Have The Sense I was Born With, That Tree Will Kill You) Read more…
25 Dec 2011
He Looked up and Saw Humans
He looked up and saw humans. They were familiar and unfamiliar all at once. They were bigger than Him. This He was not used to. He had seen everything that can be seen, but this perspective was new to Him.
Everything in His view, Read more…
11 Dec 2011
The Eyes of Our Hearts
The gas cap sat on the top of the pump 35 miles behind us. It was a strange and very unusual oversight. But it had been a strange and unusual several days. Read more…
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