Here’s an exercise, if you’re willing. Imagine a comfortable room, a quiet room. There’s a big fireplace in the room, with a roaring fire, a...

I’m tired of people looking at Jesus’ letter to the Church in Laodicea and misinterpreting it. “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neit...

Since the prophetic gifts are for the real world, think of a real world person that’s going through some trouble, someone you’ve been prayin...

Chickens. I have some chickens. They make good eggs and good soup. But chickens are dumb. Stupid. Completely unintelligent. Goldfish are sma...

The Old Covenant was all about blessings & curses (Deuteronomy 28). So that's what Old Covenant prophets spoke about. That’s why Jer...

There are maybe two primary kinds of people reacting with distress to the election results. One kind is all about outrage. That outrage has ...

I was thinking about God’s provision. Provision is something that God is really quite good at. If I ask my Father for something to eat, and ...

When we don’t question our beliefs, when we just accept what others have told us (whether from a pulpit, from a seminary, or from a publicat...

Some folks among us have had violent, “earth shaking” events in their lives recently. Some have been asking, “Why Lord? Why me?” A good gard...

I love it when God speaks through secular artists. The Pixies have some strange songs. One begins with the lines, “Meet me by the coppice st...

I learned some things recently. I probably shouldn’t be surprised, but I was. I’d started a discussion about “What one thing would you pray ...

This just ambushed my thought process. Romans 2:4 says, “Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, n...

Not Reluctantly, or Under Compulsion Should believers ever charge for their services, for the exercise of their God-given gifts? Many people...

Way back when, God proposed a relationship with humankind based on equal access for everybody, one-on-one with God (Ex 19:6). But the humans...

Has someone brought this up to you before?  "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly...

Election Thoughts This has been the strangest presidential election season I can remember, and I remember back to JFK in the 1960s. Fair war...

Have you ever woken up with a song floating through the fog in your mind? Sometimes I think that’s just an echo of a dream or a memory, part...

Some time ago, Jane & her husband John had difficulty connecting heart-to-heart with the people of their little country church. So they ...

In the New Testament times, the biggest threat to the New Covenant was “The Circumcision Party,” also known as the Judaizers. They were tryi...

A friend asked a really good question recently: Why the heck was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the middle of the Garden in t...