Reflections

A church is not a building. No matter what tradition says, no matter what society says, and certainly no matter what your feelings say, a…

When Abraham was 75-years-old, God told him to leave his home country, and go to a place that would be revealed to him.  He didn’t…

A terrible prophecy of end times destruction leaps out at the reader from the lines of Matthew 24:37-39.  It is there that we find a…

Roughly 60 active wars smolder, burn, or rage across the earth as I pen this Reflections on a Wednesday night in the second week of…

The currents and eddies of prophecy rush past us and around us like a swift moving river every day. Those of us who are “in…

You are far more likely to be hurt by someone you love than by someone you consider your enemy.  Some reasons for this are obvious.…

The intimacy of marriage is the pinnacle experience of human-to-human relationships. Because humanity does not continue without that experience, God has built reward and pleasure…

In his teaching on the demands of discipleship, Jesus compares them to the obligations of builders and warrior kings.  He says that a builder who…

When Paul was still calling himself Saul, and before he met Jesus, he was a hater of Christians and an accomplice to murder. One of…

Love is a freaky word.  It represents a weird quirk of human language in that it occupies the status of both noun and verb. Love…