It was mothers day and I wanted to hear one of the best preachers I have ever known. We drove across town to sit with my mom and dad and prepared for a sermon that would bring chills to my heart. Instead this man, whom I love dearly, got up to profess his addiction to…
If the version of Christianity we are proclaiming does not prioritize liberation for the marginalized then it is not of Jesus Christ. Two thousand times in scripture references are made to caring for the poor, marginalized, immigrants, and disregarded by society. If we love him then we will love these. If your self proclaimed judgement…
Friday… is the day that we reserve for each other. Friday is the day when we let the cares of the week scatter like leaves in the wind, and we devote our time to each other. Her question was very simple: “Do You Love Me?”. My beautiful wife while sitting at a red light, on…
According to the law she was suppose to die. She had cheated. According to the law, she got caught and stoning was her sentence. Never mind the man who got caught as well, she was the one paying the price. They had brought her to Jesus in hopes that he would defy Jewish law and…
We don’t get to choose. We don’t have any input on the subject. Our opinion doesn’t matter. When it comes to where and when you are born, it’s all up to God. Many times I have passed a homeless person and said “for the grace of God go I”. Many times as I talk with…
Yes, God loves us unquestionably and effusively. Paul even says in Romans 8 that nothing… and he clarifies… not a single thing of heaven, hell, or earth can keep us from Gods love. Do we truly believe that or like a lot of scripture do we chose to overlook it if it doesn’t fit our…
Happy Jesus Day! Standing In AWE! I stood in AWE! I stood with wonderment and tears, beholding Gods’ mighty hand. Standing at the foot of a four hundred foot waterfall, the power is overwhelming. Then my eyes turn to the Mendenhall Glacier. Ice that is thousands of years old, in a valley that was shaped…
There are nights it gets to be to much. The tears come and prayers stream from my heart. I see something… I here stories that remind me of the pain so many go through. The hatred. The judgement. The humiliation. Why do people with different backgrounds… those of color…. those that are born with different…
“It’s easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom.” Is that speaking of money? Is that speaking of those that seek material riches? Could Jesus have been talking of power? Of religious elite? Was he talking about those that think their rich…
It chases us without hasten. We try daily to forget it, but it is always there. No matter who you are in the world it still beckons and stays in the back of your mind. You can dismiss it on most days, but then worldly events or a doctors diagnoses reminds us of it. Death…