Trusting the "Sometimes" God (Before you freak out, please be assured that I’m not implying that God is “sometimes God,” and then sometimes he’s not! I mean something else, which you’ll have to read further to find out.) The season of anguish to which I refer in Part One, left me, albeit temporarily, jaded in …
Loving an Unpredictable God (Part 1)
Over Chinese food my friend Joe asked me if my faith in God was in tact. I was getting divorced, broke my neck, and was just diagnosed with cancer. He was concerned for me and wanted to know how to best be a support to me in my dark night of the soul. I’d loved …
I’m no fan of Jesus…
I woke up this morning with a slight melancholic disposition. It might have been a depressing dream that I can’t remember, too much sugar in my diet yesterday, or more likely my team’s frustrating loss last night. Whatever it was, I couldn’t quite fling my mind off of its negative loop. I felt like my …
When God breathes…
The day before I fell in love with Jesus I felt his breath on my cheek (OK, not literally, but it was no less real than literal). Several months earlier, in an effort to help me get to know Jesus, a guy named Joel had given me a Bible. “You’re going to make a good …
Some pastors pray way too much…
Many of my best friends are pastors. Really. For the most part pastors are fine people. Recently to two such friends of mine I said that they “pray too much.” In my humble opinion, there’s an epidemic proportion of profuse pastoral prayers in public. OK, I exaggerate in order to provoke – I also liked …
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