The Challenge of Love

The Challenge of Love

“This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased.” – Matthew 3:17 The difficulty with the love of God is that the human heart assumes it has to earn God’s love, or at least work hard to justify receiving it. It’s very difficult for the broken...
A Future Hope or a Present Hope?

A Future Hope or a Present Hope?

Most of us were raised with the idea that glory was some future place or time after we die. Think about the phrases in the songs we sing. “There’s a new name written down in glory….” “Oh that will be glory for me…when I shall see him face to face….” Our predisposition...
Cleaning the Mirror

Cleaning the Mirror

At the culmination of His creativity, God made people. Only with this project it was like making a mirror. It reflected God’s own image. What a masterpiece! When God looked at humanity, He saw an image of Himself – and it was really good. It was like looking in...
After Minneapolis

After Minneapolis

When will we learn? Is it even possible? Another incident of racism, discrimination, prejudice, injustice – sin. One person thinking himself better than another; presuming to have greater value because of the incidental difference of color. Are we truly reduced to...
Healthy Tension

Healthy Tension

It seems that Christians are constantly trying to make their lives easier. To remove the points of conflict and tension that exist naturally in walking with Christ. As Francois Fenelon has so aptly described in his little collection of letters to the employees of King...