Good Morning Friends, “Why me, Lord?” is one of the most honest prayers a believer ever prays. It’s the cry that rises when life wounds us, when God’s plans bewilder us, or when His calling feels heavier than our strength. Scripture never shames this question, it sanctifies it. The Bible shows that “Why me, Lord?” … Continue reading Why Me, Lord? →

Good Morning Friends, Yesterday I viewed a YouTube video. It was about a Pastor at an airport flummoxed by flight cancellations and long lines, only to discover that the situation was a wonderful opportunity to engage others in a ministry of peace including his own. We often assume that God works through the orderly, the … Continue reading When God Interrupts Your Plans, Do You Treat It As An Inconvenience Or As An Invitation Into His Will? →

Good Morning Friends, Yesterday I recommended to you a book by Harry Emerson Fosdick and today I have another recommendation for you. It is the book by Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest. And it still grips readers today nearly a century after it was first published. It refuses to flatter us. It refuses to soften … Continue reading What Part Of Your Life Still Resists The Gentle, Relentless Pressure Of Christ’s Lordship? →

Good Morning Friends, Some of Jesus’ most mysterious words come not in His parables, but on the road to His crucifixion. As He carries the cross, He turns to the weeping women of Jerusalem and speaks of a green tree and a dry tree, a riddle that opens into the whole drama of divine wrath, human rebellion, covenant … Continue reading How Does The Green Tree, The Dry Tree, And The Labor Of Jesus On The Cross Reveal The Heart Of God? →

Good Morning Friends, Some argue that Jesus came to initiate a New Covenant, not to improve the Old Covenant. Jesus came to give us new life, not to change our old life. And to some extent that is true. But the mystery is deeper. Life with Christ is not like putting patches on an old, … Continue reading How Do We Balance The Need For Both Religion And Spirituality In An Ever-Changing Culture? →

Good Morning Friends, At the crucifixion, Mark tells us something astonishing: “And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.” (Mark 15:33) Noon, normally the brightest moment of the day, became night. For three hours, creation itself dimmed. The Light of the World hung dying, and the world responded … Continue reading Do You Know What Happens in the Darkness? →

Good Morning Friends, It is a curious thing that Christians speak so often of “the parables,” and yet so seldom reckon with the sheer audacity of the One who told them. We treat them as gentle moral tales for children, forgetting that they were once considered dangerous, so dangerous, in fact, that they unsettled the learned, … Continue reading If The Parables Are The Greatest Stories Ever Told By The Greatest Storyteller Who Ever Lived, Then What Does It Say About Us That We So Often Prefer To Admire Them Rather Than Obey Them? →

Good Morning Friends, Dorothy Sayers once wrote that the greatest drama is not when man finds God, but when God finds man. The Bible’s covenants are the unfolding of that drama: the Author writing Himself into the story and refusing to abandon His characters even when they forget the plot. Yesterday we explored the story … Continue reading Where Is God Inviting You To Trust His Promise Again? →

Good Morning Friends, Today my Catholic friends are remembering the life of Saint Augustine, in part because he knew the tension between awakening and delay…between the moment God opens our eyes and the long journey of becoming spiritually ready. Before Augustine became Bishop of Hippo, he chased brilliance, ambition, and pleasure, yet confessed that his … Continue reading Does Today’s Scripture Awaken You to Joy as You Consider How God Will Use You? →

  Good Morning Friends, From the first pages of Scripture to the final cry of Jesus on the Cross, the Bible tells a single, pulsing story: life is in the blood. Every sacrifice, every altar, every lamb, every crimson drop points forward to one moment in history when God Himself would shed His own blood … Continue reading Why Does The Scarlet Thread of Redemption Answer Spiritual Questions Better Than Words Alone? →