The #LentChallenge asks you to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in preparation for Easter. To drink in the fullness of the story of Jesus, to immerse yourself in His teaching, miracles, arrest and resurrection. But the challenge is to not read the familiar, but ask...
Do you ever come across a verse, passage, or parable and say to yourself: What in the world does that mean? I don’t understand what Jesus is saying in that passage. Why would they respond that way? Is that still true today? You’re not alone. Every week during the...
Some days I feel like I live Frozen. Frozen in time. Frozen in relationships. Frozen in boiling emotions. Frozen in confusion. Frozen in between the spiritual place I reside and the latitude and longitude I long to be. Maybe you know about the winter...
I don’t understand. This doesn’t make sense. I’m so confused. What the what? Life sometimes seems like an enigma wrapped in a riddle, stuffed inside a cryptogram and sealed with another riddle. Why was that allowed? What are you trying to say? What’s going on here?...
You must lose yourself to find your true self. This is the holy path of the downward ascent. Following Jesus is a wretched journey as He pries the lesser loves from our grasp one finger at a time. That was so important to me. That was the glue that held me together....
Don’t be tricked by the rainbow collection of pens. These tools are drills and dredge machinery for mining the first two chapters of the Gospel of Matthew. Most of the colors are brighter than the soot you’ll see on foreheads today, but they are the tools I’m using...
