With my previous two articles on hope as waiting on a prison door to open and hope as singing the tune even you don’t know and can’t...

This week I listened to a podcast about hope featuring the brilliant Yale theologian, Miroslav Volf. Not surprisingly he referenced...

As we enter Advent this Sunday, I think of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his friend, Eberhard, in 1943 from his prison cell: “Life in...

While Diana Butler Bass was working on her book, Grateful, her husband gave her a purple baseball cap which said, “Make America Grateful...

On Saturday May 24, 1738, in an evening prayer meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley felt his heart “strangely warmed.” Had...

Diana Butler Bass in her excellent book Grateful observes that our nation with its division and many social problems looks like a...

Albert Schweitzer was a great man. He was a theologian, musician, physician, humanitarian and writer as well as a Nobel Prize winner. He...

In these lessons I have tried to establish that God speaks in many ways and that we can discern that voice. Now I want to share a process...

There is another helpful story about a nun struggling to hear God’s voice who came to Mother Teresa for help. Mother Teresa sent her back...

In our sermon series on Moses we have recently spent three Sundays on the events surrounding the miracle at the Red Sea. This was...

We believe that God still speaks today. We are also listening for that voice. How will we know if the voice we are hearing belongs to...

Years ago I first heard the story of a West Texas woman named Eunice. It seems that Eunice went to the local small town post office three...

At the end of each stage of the Creation story in Genesis, we read that “God saw that it was good.” Only once during Creation does God...

G. Campbell Morgan, a great British evangelist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, best summed up what I believe about God’s voice...

At this stage of my life I am really enjoying being the father of three grown sons. One reason is that they have greatly enlarged my...

I believe that projection is one of the major problems of our age. Projection is basically attributing to others characteristics or...

Comedian Lily Tomlinson once asked, “Why is it that when we talk to God it is called prayer, but when God talks to us it is called...

It is called “Hyperthymesia.” It is a rare condition that leads some people to remember a large number of life experiences in vivid...

The typical church pastor and staff member spends a lot of energy preparing for Sunday mornings. This is appropriate as the weekly...

We had an Out of This World Summer in Children's Ministry! Over the next couple of weeks we'll be blogging about some of our favorite...