Our Resurrection Too

Our Resurrection Too

How would you have described your reaction, had you been present when the resurrected Jesus first passed through the wall of the room where you were hiding? Terrified? Surprised? Shocked? Have many times would you come to repeat that story to others in the coming...
More than your greatest request

More than your greatest request

Spoiler alert: The following is another flight of PD imagination. I often like to try to fill in Scripture’s ‘silent gaps,’ those so-intriguing times when a ton of movie-worthy things are happening, but which are not recorded for us. So… As the young and...
Cardio with a Difference

Cardio with a Difference

I think Paul was jubilant that day. He held in his hand official orders from the High Priest, a search warrant to seek out and arrest everyone they found in Damascus who still professed to be a follower of that rabblerouser, Jesus of Nazareth, even though the man...
A Long and Winding Road

A Long and Winding Road

Like a kinked garden hose that allows precious little water through, the zealous Pharisee, Saul, had very little openness to, or esteem for, anyone but his fellow Jews and Judaism, the strict, and strictly, Jewish religion. That is, until his blinding encounter with...
“What if .  .  .?”

“What if . . .?”

Sometimes you hear someone say something like, “If you knew that today was your last day to live, what would you choose to do?” But I’m thinking about ideas that are in another direction entirely. I wonder what would happen if we were to luxuriously marinate in the...