Candles flickered on the Passover table, sending long shadows bouncing around the room. Scattered across the table the unleavened bread crumbs, bitter herbs, figs piled high wine in goblets half-drunk, salt water, eggs and the lamb. God’s faithfulness remembered and retold,…
We’ve been studying this book and learning from the five thresholds a person goes through to faith. Today? Openess to change. (And beware: Two kids sick, no time to edit. This should be fun. No seriously… kind of like when…
Hi Friends! In “I Once Was Lost” (the evangelism book I wish I had 10 years ago, Christianity Today’s review here) Don Everts and Doug Schaupp, two Intervarsity staffers, teach us about five thresholds an unbelieving friend walks through on their…
She walked down the aisle shining, her heart naked, shimmering, luminous… and he, forgetting to wait, forgetting to stand still…mesmerized, walked out to greet her. The universe is not kind this side of Eden and it makes cripples of all…
The indoor-sanctioned rubber ball left his foot and I could see right where it was headed, like he was doing target practice. Caedmon has serious power for an eight year old and it slammed into the glass, sent it scraping across…
You friend, if you are like me, you struggle with this too. We knee-jerk away from our “persons” when we encounter blatant mistrust, like in the first threshold moving from mistrust to trusting a Christian. Get a copy of a…
I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp wipes away the confusion of good news bearing in today’s suspicious environment. Skepticism is the undercurrent with a hefty helping…
by Summer Gross I took up residence all week on a beach towel, glancing up at the kids digging holes in the wet sand and soaking in the warmth of Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey. In it, he prepares a…
These last three days, I have been listening to their stories down the four steps from the sidewalk into our Prayer Clinic. Beautiful stories of the treachery of growing up on planet earth. It has been a privilege…
I’m practicing 31 days of writing about Feasting on the Present Moment. You can find all of them on the Browse All Articles on the left. Join me for the Journey? Planet Earth, a 4D experience, the poster had read.…