Politics: Violence and Emotion or Reconciliation, Your Choice 

The words of Hebrew Scripture set the stage for the coming of the Messiah and continue to reveal His plan for human reconciliation. But reconciliation doesn’t start with intellect or psychology or religion or just the desire to ‘get back to the way things used to be.’ It starts with a relationship with God through…

Fear, Our Hidden Enemy

 Pride is the enemy of wisdom. It feeds the belief we have ultimate control of what we think, who or what we trust and how we behave. It is an attitude, a mindset, a confidence in self that somehow, we are in charge of making our way out of aloneness into significance, moving from the bottom to the top of whatever goal we set. It is that invisible…

There’s No One Like You

 There is no way you can exhaust newness. Everything that is ahead is new. Life every day is new. The seconds, minutes, hours, days, month and years, they are all future. It’s God’s desire revealed in Creation and especially in Jesus. With newness comes choice and decision and the challenge they present.…

What It Means to be a Disciple

The sequence of events in John’s Gospel is significant. We begin with the beginning and it was the Word made flesh who was and is the Light of the world. He was full of grace and truth. Then John the Baptizer was sent to prepare for His coming by preaching repentance for sin and proclaiming His identity as the Lamb of God. The Jesus calls His first…