Writings

Nov / 2024

Athlete, Farmer, Soldier: Which One Are You?

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Aug / 2024

Coral Reefs, Bird Nests, and Meditation

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Jul / 2024

Those Who Listen Thread the Labyrinth

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May / 2024

What We Learn from Elijah’s Ravens

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May / 2024

The Song of the Manchild Miracle

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Apr / 2024

What We Learn from the Osprey

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Mar / 2024

The Last Laugh of Easter

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Mar / 2024

Hot Lava

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Feb / 2024

Three Signs of a Good Community

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Feb / 2024

The Other Side of Myself

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Jan / 2024

Three Signs of Your Calling

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Dec / 2023

The Artist

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Dec / 2023

Jim Alford on His 90th

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Dec / 2023

2024 and the Lost Christian

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Dec / 2023

On Prophecy: An Introduction

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Dec / 2023

On Daniel 10:1-11:1

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Oct / 2023

The Honeymoon

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Oct / 2023

The Bells of Matins

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Sep / 2023

The Pocket Watch

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Sep / 2023

Why I Search the Scriptures

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Apr / 2023

Passion, Purpose, and the Missing Peace

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Mar / 2023

The Gift of Saffron

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Mar / 2023

Tragedy, Therapy, and the Missing Peace

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Feb / 2023

Faith in the Somehow

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Jan / 2023

The Year 2023 and the (S)meltdown of Hope

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Sep / 2022

The Sacrament of the Present Moment: A Souk Story

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Aug / 2022

Your Weakness Saves You, Part 2

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Aug / 2022

Your Weakness Saves You, Part 1

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Jul / 2022

Disappointment & The Parable of the Waterfall

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Feb / 2022

Is Holding onto the Cliff Face Success?

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Feb / 2022

Do We Do Dissent Well?

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Jan / 2022

Vision and Our Need for New Lenses

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Jan / 2022

Motives, Mysteries, and Leaders

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Dec / 2021

Hold onto Your Thread in the Tangle

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Dec / 2021

Humility and Creative Outcomes

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Dec / 2021

Five Books for Your Winter

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Nov / 2021

The Prophecy of Plod the Horse

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Oct / 2021

Ode to the Last Jaguar

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Sep / 2021

Humility and Geography

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Aug / 2021

Honesty and the Risks We Take

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Jun / 2021

Why You Should Write

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May / 2021

For Sam on His Graduation Day

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May / 2021

The Ivy of Tbilisi

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Apr / 2021

The Sculptor

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Apr / 2021

Fairuz in the Morning

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Apr / 2021

The Power of Little by Little

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Mar / 2021

Acceptance: the Unexpected Virtue

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Feb / 2021

Our First Calling is to Listen

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Jan / 2021

The Aroma of Prayer

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Jan / 2021

How to Pray for the Wicked

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Jan / 2021

Rejection and Honey from the Rock

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Jan / 2021

Where We Are Headed

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Jan / 2021

The Three Heavens

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Dec / 2020

Weakness Waters the Garden

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Dec / 2020

Growing Up until We Are Little Children

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Dec / 2020

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

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Nov / 2020

What Does It Mean To Walk by Faith?

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Nov / 2020

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

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Nov / 2020

Stormproof Compass for the Chaos

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Nov / 2020

Rest Leads to Revelation

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Oct / 2020

Worst-Case Scenario Faith

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Oct / 2020

Prayer, Compost, and Praying without Ceasing

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Oct / 2020

Seven Questions to Ask for Testing a Spiritual Message

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Oct / 2020

Nine Questions to Ask When You Dream a Dream

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May / 2020

Pray Like Mr. Rogers

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May / 2020

Sostis

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May / 2020

Lament of Duke Ulrich

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Jun / 2019

Ode To the Moon

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Sep / 2018

Rembrandt Invites You Into His Storm

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Aug / 2018

Description of a Larry Dyke Painting

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Jun / 2018

Hopkins Gives the Windhover a Voice

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Jun / 2018

Three Servants on Your Day Off

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May / 2018

To My Son Daniel on His Graduation Day

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Jul / 2017

Ode to Kaija-Liisa

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Jul / 2017

I Will Follow Tom

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Jul / 2017

The Path of Dan

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May / 2017

To My Daughter Becca on Her Graduation Day

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May / 2017

Spirit and Truth

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Apr / 2017

On Beauty

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Jan / 2017

Ode to Fred Mahler

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Nov / 2016

Worship and the Conversion of Creation

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Nov / 2016

Music and the Holy Spirit

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Nov / 2016

360 Gratitude, Part 3: Upgrading Our Reality Check

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Nov / 2016

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

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Nov / 2016

360 Gratitude, Part 1: The Perspective of Heaven

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Nov / 2016

Why Weakness?

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Nov / 2016

Why Suffering?

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Nov / 2016

Prayer for Ashley

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Nov / 2016

Are You in Love?

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Nov / 2016

When Offended

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