BLOG “Let’s Talk About Judas” Let’s talk about Judas for a moment. Judas was a disciple of Jesus. He was one of the original twelve that accompanied Jesus for his entire three-year ministry. Yet, Judas is most famous for betraying Jesus in exchange for 30 silver coins. He made a deal with the religious …
BLOG Restore Is Too Small A Hope God isn’t interested in bringing you back to the good old days. God is interested in bringing you into the newly realized goal of being right here, right now. Restore is too small of a hope for anyone’s life. Yet, if we are honest, restoring what has …
BLOG If It Feels Good, Do It! There’s a very strong, very persuasive cultural conviction that has influenced every single one of our lives. No matter if you are old or young, male or female, white or black, rich or poor, educated or uneducated. All of us have lived, and some of us are still …
BLOG What Do You Want? You find yourself sitting on the bank of a river. It’s a warm, summer afternoon. The birds are singing, the sound of an airplane is faintly heard in the distance. And, of course, there is the sound of the water rushing over the rocks right out in front of you. …
BLOG Forgiven Much, Forgive Much A parable about your relationship with God, your relationship with other people and the connection between the two: There once was a man who needed a large amount of cash in order to get himself out of a really sticky and dangerous situation. He had tried everything that he …
BLOG Our Culture Loves Christmas Why is it that Easter can’t match the cultural and commercial success of Christmas? After all, for a majority Christian nation, if there is no Easter than Christmas is simply a Hallmark holiday. One would think that the salvation of the world, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, would …
BLOG Rock Bottom Ronny was a binge alcoholic. He would be clean and sober for months and then, seemingly out-of-the-blue, he would disappear into a daily binge of alcohol for weeks on end. He was a hard worker. He had his own handy-man business and he could fix anything. He was very active in church …
BLOG A Fine Line There is a fine line between fondly remembering what has been and being stuck in what was. Not that I, or anyone else for that matter, have all the answer as to how one knows the difference or how one can avoid the latter while enjoying the former. All I know …
BLOG Far Away And Yet Still At Home Our plane landed in Phoenix, Arizona. As we deboarded, it occurred to me that we had been flying for about five hours from Tampa, Florida. A little over an hour later we would be sitting in our rental car with our bags neatly stowed in the back. …
BLOG You Don’t Know This one goes out to all of you who are stuck in your ways. All of you who believe that you know what you like. Thus, you aren’t open to anything other than what you already know that you already like. (Before you go off all offended, I am talking about …
