What does empty mean in a culture that loves full? We are about to take the last part of our journey. Everything we review in the next...

Are we Palm Sunday People? For real. Not just on Sunday? On Monday, too? Scripture to guide your way to the cross . . Saturday When he...

Why do we sugar-coat sin? Are we so insecure that we have exchanged rationalization for confession? David thought he could hide an ugly...

When God wants to do something new, stand back and watch a Master at work. He pairs unlimited resources with perfect timing to form...

"When someone asks, "What's new?" we immediately think of something we bought or changed. However, really new is beyond what we can buy...

When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River to enter the land God promised them, it wasn’t just about giving them new land. It was...

Someone cut down my tree. It was a beautiful crepe myrtle that bloomed in the spring with fistfuls of confetti-white blossoms. I...

How do you know when you’re thirsty? I’m not a big water-drinker. I often quip about how dehydrated my generation must have been before...

Are you a friend of the cross? It depends how you respond to surrender. Crosses make more enemies than friends. It is human nature to...

Abram sat under the stars, away from conversations with his tribal compatriots, away from management responsibilities of how to move so...

The purpose of temptation is not to undo us.  The purpose is to help us realize how our poverty can never fill our needs by our best inventi

We need sabbath. We need to rest from the pushy voices that make us feel less than enough. We need sanctuary where we cannot be hunted dow

Today we wear the ashes of our impotence and mortality. It is a day to remember who we are and who we are not. Today we bring our...

In this rush about, text-crazy, isolated, and often depressed and angry world we live in, the call to come away for a time to hear a...

Jesus had finished delivering great words about kingdom living to the crowd that had scattered on a hillside in Galilee. Then he walked...

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. We have made it a day for sharing cards, chocolate, flowers, and making expensive dining reservations....

After naming his disciples and calling them together, Jesus left the quiet hillside to face the crowd that was waiting for him. They had...

The tension was beginning to build for Jesus. The Pharisees followed his every move, waiting to pounce in public. Jesus was becoming too...

No one likes to be singled out for doing something wrong, especially when it is unintentional. That's what happened to Jesus' disciples...

No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. Luke 5:36 When is old over? When is it time for something new? Read...