Stories can sound accurate until compared with the facts. Two straight lines may look to be parallel until extended further. Measured construction elements may seem accurate until attempts are made…
The Book of God (aka The Bible) is the intimate love story of the One Eternity- Dwelling, All-Creative, Jealous, Relationship-smitten Supreme Deity, and, of all things, human beings: His own…
Jesus chooses us. Jesus calls us. Jesus equips us. But Jesus also knows us. He knows our stuff. He knows the embarrassing, humiliating stuff about us. He knows the magnitude…
New life comes to us by way of invitation only. There is no application to fill out, no resume to tweak/put a spin on. The invitation is to Divinity-initiated adoption,…
Jesus tore down every barrier separating us: blood-stained our sin, killed off death, bequeathed grace, re-established relationship possibility with himself; and now he invites us to live his life! All this in…
Because of His bounding joy, God went to meticulous lengths forming us in His image. Then, Adam’s tragic failure in the Garden marred that image. Until that moment when Adam’s…
For the Apostles, grasping the full scope of what Jesus’ death accomplished and made available was a distilling process, a little by little, growing awareness, with expanding comprehensions, and elating…
‘There is a place that I know where I need more often to go. A place of amazing comfort and rest.’ from Arms of my Father, by Dave Chumchal We sing…
Twenty-five years after his blinding encounter with the very Jesus he was persecuting, Paul became a prisoner in Rome, under guard, but allowed to be in his own rented house,…
At his birth, Jesus was the in-breaking of the Kingdom and its King. How he lived was a Kingdom-citizen prototype. His charisma was unsophisticated, pure. His joyful enthusiasm was compelling.…
