Dialogical Tension
Sounds academic. Maybe too academic for you to bother with. But, before you tune me out, or click out of this blog, you may want to think twice. The enemy is using the absence of dialogical tension in our world…
Power of Hiddenness: Intimacy in the Waiting
There is a deep desire in all of us to be known- to know and be known. Could it be that this is our human nature? It wouldn’t be surprising. We are created in the image of God…and God created…
Grace Cut to Size
I love the grace of God! Couldn't survive without the grace of God. Dean Sherman, one of my favorite of all time Bible teachers, preaches about grace being real stuff, with substance, cut exactly to the size of our need…
Where’s Your Tabernacle?
You need a tabernacle! You must have it! It’s a place and time in your life set aside to regularly quiet yourself in God’s presence and, through His Word, by His Spirit, draw near to hear His voice...and be wrapped…
Two Kinds of With
It is so important to know the difference. There is a use of the word “with” in Scripture that simply refers to the occasion where people happen to be together, with each other, and there is no larger or more…
Just Hanging Out Kind of Friends
Rita's uncle Oris had farmed 300 plus acres of corn and soy beans outside of Dayton, Iowa, for most of his life. Farming being what it is uncle Oris had made life-long friends of the neighboring farmers. They shared farm…
God Always Begins with the End in Mind
God’s sovereignty versus our free will. Which one determines our future? Maybe the answer is both? “Either/or” creates a dissonance none of us are comfortable with. It is an argument that has dominated the last five hundred years of church…
Answers Aren’t Always the Answer
Just read an article that when disaffected young people were given the opportunity to explain, in their own words, why they left the church, they claimed it was because the church wasn’t offering cogent responses to the criticisms of science…
Burning Jealousy
Think of a lover spurned. Or deep envy over someone else's position or possession. Not the kind of emotion you would normally ascribe to God. We think of jealousy mostly in a negative sense. It shows up in several of…
Steeled To Do Wrong
I was fortunate enough to have been raised in a home with equal parts love, affirmation and discipline. That didn’t stop me from being a willful child. But I did learn that any determination I had for doing the wrong…