Many people know about grace through the hymn "Amazing Grace," which is often thought to be a Negro spiritual. But it was written by a white British poet and pastor named John Newton. Earlier in his life, in the mid-1700s, Newton was a slave trader. He transported slaves on ships…
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Walking in the blessing of God requires your cooperation. You have to access it by faith. Receiving a miracle, on the other hand, is basically dependent on how desperate you are. If you don't give up or quit and you're still looking to God, you can have a supernatural intervention,…
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Amazement is a good word to describe the common experience of the early Christians. Something new happened in history regarding the fulfillment of Old Testament promises and it was truly amazing. It had started out rather inconspicuously with John the Baptist preaching to the remnant of Israel far away from…
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Imagine a made-for-TV movie of your life – everything you've ever done, everything you’ve ever said, all the things you've never told another living soul. Imagine it’s there on the screen for everyone to watch. How would you feel about that? Here’s the truth of the Gospel: God has seen…
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It's after dinner that I catch the replays on the news: footage of a tropical storm hitting hard in Haiti. Rain sheeting across a little, lithe Haitian boy running the wide-eyed and terrified, desperate for refuge from a storm bearing down. In the news clip, the shirtless kid grabs a…
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The Bible tells us that Enoch walked with God (Gen. 5:24), and it says, "Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God” (Gen. 6:9, NIV). Noah and Enoch are the only two men about whom this is said. Walking with…
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We need one another in this life. When our world feels like it is crumbling and there is no sight of daylight, we need our friends – our community – to pray and speak Truth over our lives. We need each other to display compassion and help with our physical,…
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They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber. (John 18:40) It was a tumultuous few days. The trial with trumped up charges, the examination by Pilate, Herod, and Caiaphas, mixed with the confusion of the disciples of Jesus often take the focus off what…
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These days I interact with a lot of different people, some in deep and continuing relationships, others only one time for a few minutes. But God trained me in children's Sunday school rooms to interact with everyone in such a way that it feels completely personal. And it is personal…
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