Christians with reckless abandon and unstoppable compassionate have gone way out of their way to get me God's help. Time to pay it forward. (Click Title)
"If you will, you can make me clean," said the leper in desperate faith. "I will, be thou clean," Jesus replied, and it was so. But is such healing still available here and now? (Click Title)
Eliphaz and Job's other well-meaning friends were too full of themselves to fish in the deep of his desperation. May my model today be Peter kneeling before Jesus. (Click Title)
By God's grace Saul of Tarsus, confessed blasphemer and persecutor with blood on his hands, became the Apostle Paul, great and good. That shames my self-deprecation into silence. (Click Title)
Marianne, John, Frances, George, Wilna, Marc, Mort, Patty: what an endowment of hunger and thirst for righteousness I have from these parents and grandparents of mine. (Click Title)
As when a sky-full of fighter jets are scrambled to rescue a single downed American pilot, our God puts all his mighty arsenal at the summons of a believer's desperate appeal. (Click Title)
Polls say Americans are a very unhappy people right now. It's 2-1 or even 3-1. This election may attest it but won't begin to solve it. Happiness comes from what we worship, not how we vote. (Click Title)
A friend who came late to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, marveled to me at how many believers had passed up chances to evangelize him. Paul's conversion story in Acts 26 convicts me on that. (Click Title)
Women's dazzling feats at Rio remind me how we men have often done women wrong through the ages, and how the Christian veneration of Mary has long pushed back against that injustice. (Click Title)
August takes its name from the Roman emperor who ruled in Jesus' time. Today's readings convict me about what ruler I really obey and exalt. (Click Title)
With kids heading back to school, Father, make me an eager learner on this day too. Not like the king who under-claimed your bounty or the fisherman who denied knowing you. (Click Title)
Olympics focus me on excellence and intentionality. My self-scrutiny questions today come from King David, King Joash, the Apostle Paul, and the Apostle Peter.
