Nov / 2024
Aug / 2024
Coral Reefs, Bird Nests, and Meditation
Jul / 2024
Those Who Listen Thread the Labyrinth
May / 2024
What We Learn from Elijah’s Ravens
May / 2024
The Song of the Manchild Miracle
Apr / 2024
What We Learn from the Osprey
Mar / 2024
The Last Laugh of Easter
Mar / 2024
Hot Lava
Feb / 2024
Three Signs of a Good Community
Feb / 2024
The Other Side of Myself
Jan / 2024
Three Signs of Your Calling
Dec / 2023
The Artist
Dec / 2023
Jim Alford on His 90th
Dec / 2023
2024 and the Lost Christian
Dec / 2023
On Prophecy: An Introduction
Dec / 2023
On Daniel 10:1-11:1
Oct / 2023
The Honeymoon
Oct / 2023
The Bells of Matins
Sep / 2023
The Pocket Watch
Sep / 2023
Why I Search the Scriptures
Apr / 2023
Passion, Purpose, and the Missing Peace
Mar / 2023
The Gift of Saffron
Mar / 2023
Tragedy, Therapy, and the Missing Peace
Feb / 2023
Faith in the Somehow
Jan / 2023
The Year 2023 and the (S)meltdown of Hope
Sep / 2022
The Sacrament of the Present Moment: A Souk Story
Aug / 2022
Your Weakness Saves You, Part 2
Aug / 2022
Your Weakness Saves You, Part 1
Jul / 2022
Disappointment & The Parable of the Waterfall
Feb / 2022
Is Holding onto the Cliff Face Success?
Feb / 2022
Do We Do Dissent Well?
Jan / 2022
Vision and Our Need for New Lenses
Jan / 2022
Motives, Mysteries, and Leaders
Dec / 2021
Hold onto Your Thread in the Tangle
Dec / 2021
Humility and Creative Outcomes
Dec / 2021
Five Books for Your Winter
Nov / 2021
The Prophecy of Plod the Horse
Oct / 2021
Ode to the Last Jaguar
Sep / 2021
Humility and Geography
Aug / 2021
Honesty and the Risks We Take
Jun / 2021
Why You Should Write
May / 2021
For Sam on His Graduation Day
May / 2021
The Ivy of Tbilisi
Apr / 2021
The Sculptor
Apr / 2021
Fairuz in the Morning
Apr / 2021
The Power of Little by Little
Mar / 2021
Acceptance: the Unexpected Virtue
Feb / 2021
Our First Calling is to Listen
Jan / 2021
The Aroma of Prayer
Jan / 2021
How to Pray for the Wicked
Jan / 2021
Rejection and Honey from the Rock
Jan / 2021
Where We Are Headed
Jan / 2021
The Three Heavens
Dec / 2020
Weakness Waters the Garden
Dec / 2020
Growing Up until We Are Little Children
Dec / 2020
Hope & Hairdressers: What It Means to Wait on the Lord
Nov / 2020
What Does It Mean To Walk by Faith?
Nov / 2020
Hurt by Church: “I Received These Wounds in the House of My Friends”
Nov / 2020
Stormproof Compass for the Chaos
Nov / 2020
Rest Leads to Revelation
Oct / 2020
Worst-Case Scenario Faith
Oct / 2020
Prayer, Compost, and Praying without Ceasing
Oct / 2020
Seven Questions to Ask for Testing a Spiritual Message
Oct / 2020
Nine Questions to Ask When You Dream a Dream
May / 2020
Pray Like Mr. Rogers
May / 2020
Sostis
May / 2020
Lament of Duke Ulrich
Jun / 2019
Ode To the Moon
Sep / 2018
Rembrandt Invites You Into His Storm
Aug / 2018
Description of a Larry Dyke Painting
Jun / 2018
Hopkins Gives the Windhover a Voice
Jun / 2018
Three Servants on Your Day Off
May / 2018
To My Son Daniel on His Graduation Day
Jul / 2017
Ode to Kaija-Liisa
Jul / 2017
I Will Follow Tom
Jul / 2017
The Path of Dan
May / 2017
To My Daughter Becca on Her Graduation Day
May / 2017
Spirit and Truth
Apr / 2017
On Beauty
Jan / 2017
Ode to Fred Mahler
Nov / 2016
Worship and the Conversion of Creation
Nov / 2016
Music and the Holy Spirit
Nov / 2016
360 Gratitude, Part 3: Upgrading Our Reality Check
Nov / 2016
360 Gratitude, Part 2: Thanksgiving and the Art of War
Nov / 2016
360 Gratitude, Part 1: The Perspective of Heaven
Nov / 2016
Why Weakness?
Nov / 2016
Why Suffering?
Nov / 2016
Prayer for Ashley
Nov / 2016
Are You in Love?
Nov / 2016
When Offended
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