My opinion doesn’t really matter. How I feel often leads to poor judgement. My assumptions are often wrong. My moods frequently show I am just tired and not experiencing some wrong inflicted on me from others. My desires will never be satisfied if they are most important. So, what is the alternative? You may think... Continue Reading →

Nicodemus questions Jesus. The Rich Young Ruler has a question he needs answered. The disciples question how to pray, the meaning of parables, and an assortment of misunderstandings of Jesus’ teachings. Jesus spends so much of his time being quizzed and questioned. The Pharisees keep trying to trap him, the disciples are consistently not getting... Continue Reading →

“He is the devout man...who considers God in everything.” - William Law Is Law talking about everything but not my job? Everything but not my treatment of servers at a restaurant? Is it everything but not that story I can’t wait to tell on someone I don’t like? Is it everything but not that area... Continue Reading →

Jesus wept , and sweated drops of blood, and looked across a room and saw his betrayer, and had everyone he loved abandon him, and begged God to take his pain from him, and grieved the unfaithfulness of man, and heard lies spilled about him, and was tortured, and executed.  His torment, pain, loss, and... Continue Reading →

My morning spiritual routine is never static. I tweak it and change it to meet my current work schedule or physical or family priorities. I have written about it before but what I do currently is something different.  I thought I would share my routine with you so that it might give you some ideas... Continue Reading →

When we most needed to be generous, we hoarded.  When we most needed to pray, we clicked the next episode.  When we most needed to practice empathy, we came up with excuses and criticized.  When we most needed to embrace solitude and rest, we went on political rants and mined the internet for groups that... Continue Reading →

If prayers are supposed to be conversations we are having with God then our prayers will have the kind of variety we find in our conversational lives. When not praying, our conversations throughout the day may include stories told, small talk about the weather and the strain of the everyday, the next thing that is... Continue Reading →

A 2018 Barna survey lists the most common reason for young adults to lose faith is that they “have a hard time believing that a good God would allow so much evil or suffering in the world.”  All of us have struggled with this sentiment. But, isn’t Growing Up about reaching the point where God’s... Continue Reading →

“Dramatic depths of reality.” This was just a small phrase that Tish Harrison Warren used in discussing the Psalms but it stopped me in my tracks. I don’t know what was going through her mind when she wrote those words but here is what I have in mind when I think about the “dramatic depths... Continue Reading →

I consume scripture everyday but not how you might suspect. I don’t read a word out of a bound copy of the Bible. I don’t have the pages bookmarked with a ribbon or a crude piece of paper yet God’s word is consumed daily. I haven't underlined scripture in weeks. I do two things each... Continue Reading →