June 27, 2024 Kingdom Culture I have lived in several different earthly cultures. They have all changed me in different ways. For a long time now, God’s Kingdom culture…
May 30, 2024 Jesus is different We know Jesus is different from the earliest accounts of His life. The gospels are the recordings of life with Jesus written by the…
May 23, 2024 Good Fruit Grows From Freedom What does freedom have to do with fruit? Anything? Everything? The Bible, depending on the translation, has over 240 mentions about fruit, good fruit…
May 16, 2024 Growing Up “Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional,” is possibly my favorite bumper sticker. It reminds me of Peter Pan: “I’ll never grow up!”…
April 4, 2024 Joy Joy might seem elusive sometimes or even often. As I write, the power has gone out because of a spring Nor’easter. No hot breakfast…
March 7, 2024 Changing Mindsets When I lived in Africa, I became pretty proficient at translating French to English, and vice versa. I have also studied other African and…
February 8, 2024 Get Out of Your Head Circumstances around us are such that, I suspect we are all trying to figure out how to navigate various options. As I pray, I…
December 21, 2023 Inside and Outside of Time, and More In the beginning God. . . . That means there is something outside of time, and last week we looked at how God is…
December 14, 2023 Immanuel Today let’s think a little more deeply about the meaning and significance of Immanuel. By taking the usual investigation questions, a bit “out of…
May 11, 2023 Experiencing God The idea of experiencing God has been rolling around in my heart and mind for several days. It began when I read the footnote…