When I lived with Bob and Jean I noticed that they routinely pray for parking places – and pretty much everything else, from good deals on tomatoes at Safeway to revival in America. As for revival, since there are other people interceding for that, if it does break out somewhere, we’d have to give partial …
Not fair! (part one)
Once we discover that God has joined our tears and can be moved with compassion, the world becomes a very unpredictable place. M. Craig Barnes Friend, I am not being unfair to you… Don’t I have the right to do what I want with (what is) my own…? Matthew 20:13, 15 When my kids were …
“Dad, we gotta get us some tattoos!”
When the handwritten message on the wall became clear that our marriage was finished before we actually crossed the finished line (the “till death do us part” part), I was in such emotional turmoil I wanted to put some distance between me and the pain. I craved escape. Thinking out loud I said the same …
Sometimes do and sometimes don’t…
4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. Proverbs 26:4-5 “I don’t believe in any of that Jesus stuff. It, and all religion, is made up by people …
The story within the story…
In his remarkable book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller suggested that the Creator wrote us into his story along with sunsets and rainstorms as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created …
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