Essays

The Last Laugh of Easter

Three Signs of a Good Community

Three Signs of Your Calling

2024 and the Lost Christian

On Prophecy: An Introduction

On Daniel 10:1-11:1

Why I Search the Scriptures

Passion, Purpose, and the Missing Peace

Tragedy, Therapy, and the Missing Peace

Faith in the Somehow

The Year 2023 and the (S)meltdown of Hope

The Sacrament of the Present Moment: A Souk Story

Your Weakness Saves You, Part 2

Your Weakness Saves You, Part 1

Disappointment & The Parable of the Waterfall

Is Holding onto the Cliff Face Success?

Do We Do Dissent Well?

Vision and Our Need for New Lenses

Motives, Mysteries, and Leaders

Hold onto Your Thread in the Tangle

Humility and Creative Outcomes

Humility and Geography

Honesty and the Risks We Take

Why You Should Write

The Power of Little by Little

Acceptance: the Unexpected Virtue

Our First Calling is to Listen

The Aroma of Prayer

How to Pray for the Wicked

Rejection and Honey from the Rock

Where We Are Headed

The Three Heavens

Weakness Waters the Garden

Growing Up until We Are Little Children

Hope & Hairdressers: What It Means to Wait on the Lord

What Does It Mean To Walk by Faith?

Hurt by Church: “I Received These Wounds in the House of My Friends”

Stormproof Compass for the Chaos

Rest Leads to Revelation

Worst-Case Scenario Faith

Prayer, Compost, and Praying without Ceasing

Seven Questions to Ask for Testing a Spiritual Message

Nine Questions to Ask When You Dream a Dream

Pray Like Mr. Rogers

Three Servants on Your Day Off

Worship and the Conversion of Creation

Music and the Holy Spirit

360 Gratitude, Part 2: Thanksgiving and the Art of War

360 Gratitude, Part 1: The Perspective of Heaven

Why Weakness?

Choose Joy

Reflections on the Resurrection, Part 4: Absolute Clarity in His Presence

Reflections on the Resurrection, Part 3: Ancestors and Generations Gathered in One Place at One Time

Reflections on the Resurrection, Part 2: Every Secret Thing Revealed: Good News?

Reflections on the Resurrection, Part 1: What will it be like?

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