When Tragedy Strikes

How do we find comfort in a Creator who’s supposed to be loving enough and powerful enough to have stopped the disaster and all the suffering in the first place? Suffering feels like the absence of God’s love and power. But is it? From September 25, 2016

Puzzling Parables #4: Com’parables

Are you bothered by the way Jesus speaks? Are you doing what it takes to get inside Jesus’ head and heart? Want answers? Abundance only comes through desire and pursuit and persistence. From September 18, 2016

Puzzling Parables #3: Sower, Seed, and Soil

Jesus places His listeners into four categories by simply and brilliantly portraying them as soils. And in so doing, He simultaneously reveals Satan’s three weapons against our reception. From September 11, 2016

Law & Order XVII: Perfect Harmony

After three years of impassioned effort, and sixteen messages to lay it out line upon line, with no verse left out, out of order, or out of context, here is a paraphrase of a seamless harmony of Easter. From September 4, 2016