She looked the part of an addict. Gaunt and pale, her clothes hanging loosely on her concave frame, her face set in lines of despair. Should I speak? Why would I want to connect with this woman? Why would I span the gap between us and approach her world? Yet… “How was your day?” Within … Read more
Our nation is reeling in shock from the culture wars, chaos in our streets, breakdown of our Judeo-Christian foundations. How should the church react? To what is our Lord calling us? The words of the prophet Joel reach us over the ages. Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the … Read more
What does the Apostle Paul mean when he tells us to “walk in the Spirit?”Is it some otherworldly experience in which a believer gets a strange look in his eye and wanders around spouting scripture or quoting from the latest and greatest Christian self-help book? Does it happen only in church? Or is it something … Read more
Today an unpleasant task reared its ugly head. I was called upon to tackle a tedious number of phone calls and web interactions with several businesses, and I braced myself for recorded voices, long waits, and officious personalities. And sure enough, that’s how it started off. But I began to think about Jesus and how … Read more
Whatever on earth was God telling Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones? Now here, in chapter 37, is a strange sight – dry lifeless bones scattered randomly across the valley floor. Not skeletons, mind you, but hopelessly desiccated bones. Then God spoke, and Ezekiel prophesied to those bones. And something happened. They came together, … Read more
“I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with … Read more
“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are ill-treated as if you yourselves were suffering. “(Hebrews 13:3) Church, let’s pray without ceasing in this time. We know that for many believers martyrdom is a reality in our world today. We here in the west … Read more
Some of us are old enough to remember the days of the Lone Ranger. He and his sidekick Tonto would gallop on the radio waves into the imaginations of small boys and girls with a “Heigh Ho Silver – Away!” He conquered the “bad guys” of the Wild West all alone, with Tonto his only … Read more
Some Christian writers have recently observed that our post Christian culture has moved beyond Christianity while still “feasting on its fruits”. The theologian Tom Holland in his 542 page tome “Dominion” (yes, it’s worth the read!) makes a pretty much irrefutable case for the fact that Jesus and Christianity have vastly improved our world over … Read more