What’s your purpose?

All humans desperately crave it and even need it to survive. And what is it? Purpose. The reason we get up in the morning. The thing that keeps us running. It is our reason to live and to be. We all have one. For some it may be a career we have dreamed about since we...

Unselective Love

Oh, if we could all be this way. Unselective Love. No prerequisites. No standard to meet. No dress code. Nothing. Just pure, unbiased, love. Unselective love doesn’t reject people based on first appearances. It doesn’t reject people even after they know them good...

The Kingdom of Heaven

F. Buechner, ““If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, … we would know that the Kingdom of God is what we all of us hunger for above all other things even when we don’t know its name or realize that it’s what we’re starving to death for....
Our Weakness Calls for Rejoicing

Our Weakness Calls for Rejoicing

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 “7 So to keep me from becoming conceited…a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said...
Resisting the Devil and His Temptations

Resisting the Devil and His Temptations

Matthew 4:1-11 Believe it or not, Jesus was tempted. The book of Matthew retells the encounter that Jesus had with Satan. And for me, it’s a little different than what I normally picture when I imagine dealing with Satan himself. Here’s what we don’t find in it… We...