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In today’s Revelation text God meets our emotional needs in two ways. The text promises God will “wipe away every tear” — suggesting that the emotionally honest and cleansing tears will first be allowed to flow, but that these tears will then be dried by God’s own tender hand. … Read More
If we are honest with ourselves, we all have the experience, somehow, someway, of being incased in a tomb more times in our life than we can count. The truly crazy thing about being in a tomb, is that often we don’t even know we are in them until the … Read More
The church season we are now entering is called, “Eastertide.” And that word makes me think of the beach! I love the beach—with it’s ocean breeze, surf, sun, and sand. Eastertide can uncover what previously was hidden, like the surf exposes what is on the shore. Easter’s transforming love also … Read More
In the 1950 film classic, Harvey, Jimmy Stewart plays the eccentric Elwood who is befriended by a benign but mischievous spirit called a “pookah,” that takes the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey. Only Elwood (and a few privileged others) ever sees Harvey, who accompanies him everywhere he goes. … Read More
I have noticed that parents don’t seemed to like to identify the personality quirks in their children as coming from themselves. We love to identify our kids as getting our best qualities, not so much the things we don’t like in ourselves. On the good side, I get my love … Read More
It would be hard to ask the mom of a dead soldier to put flowers on the grave of the enemy—the point is no one had to ask. War was raging in 1863 when a battle took place in Columbia, MS. Later, after the armies had moved away from the … Read More
Did you see that a group of atheists rewrote the 10 Commandments? Here they are in a nutshell: Be open minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence. Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you wish to be true. … Read More
The Last Supper of Jesus – Love, Betrayal, Bread, Cup, And the Silver… we can’t escape the Silver. It is the Ultimate Sellout. I Come to the Table. I Dip my Hand in the Bowl. I Eat With, Partake Of, My Friend and Lord God, And I Betray him! Oh, … Read More