It happens daily. I notice it when I wear my HJD shirts. People look at me and form a pre-conceived idea when they see the name Jesus. Many tell me they like my shirt. Those inquires are great. The ones I worry about… the ones that keep me up at night… are the ones that…
God comes into the world in surprising ways so that the sincere seeker will always find evidence. Is sincere seeking perhaps the real meaning of walking in faith? —Richard Rohr We have forfeited our desire to reason. One of the delights in being human is the ability to reason. To look at issues and…
Grace! So misunderstood. So foreign by our standards. A gift that we cannot comprehended. No strings… no agenda… no effort to earn… simply free. Grace cannot be understood by any record of merits and demerits. It cannot be held to patterns of buying, losing, earning, achieving, or manipulating, which is where most of us live…
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. —Martin Luther King Jr. In a world of so much hatred it is time we realize there is more that unites us then divides us. …
Why does it have to be human or divine? Maybe to be human is to be divine. Lately many young people tell me they are trying to read the bible from cover to cover. I always share “good luck” on understanding and getting much out of it. It is a library of stories written by…
Happy Jesus Day! SCHADENFREUDE! Two teenagers asked me why people are so rude in traffic? Why do they get angry when you pull in front of them? While in traffic recently I inadvertently pulled in front of a man in a big pickup. He followed behind me, on his horn, for the next several blocks. …
Bird nest’s fascinate me. None more than that of a swallow. Under our carport is a swallow nest that has been there for years. Their nest is so well constructed that it can stay, for years, as a place to return to. They strategically place it somewhere out of the weather. They fasten it to…
He told me “you will never find a church like your vision”. I get so dismayed watching what we have turned Jesus’s love into. It’s a show. It’s about this rule or that. This lifestyle or that. When in fact Jesus’s life was about acceptance… compassion. Not condemnation or judgement! Church has become facebook in…
Religions see certain people as the enemy. Jesus followers see sin as the enemy. All my life I have listened to preachers speak as though we are in and they are out. They speak of those within the church as being saved and the rest are not. They speak as though its a club and…
Happy Jesus Day! The Way Of Love! The question was “what is love exactly”? Love, as an action, is the only thing that has ever changed the world for the better. Love is Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi…. Love is a little girl in Pakistan named Malala Yousafzai standing up to men who said that…