Tabor: The day you overcome
At Mount Tabor, God told Deborah and Barak, “This is the day I will give you victory over your oppressors.” The same Lord gives us strength to overcome, too!
Prayer of the Body, for the Body, of Christ
A prayer “that, as the Bride of Christ, we will continue to learn to ‘walk in beauty’ with our fellow man and God." - Mark Charles
Toxic church? Healing promise: Real belonging
Long ago and still today, God promises his traumatized, grieving, scattered people: I will be a sanctuary to you. I will protect you. I will gather you back.
Masters of misdirection and mesmerizing fog
People like King Ahab spend their lives using and abusing others, to get what they want. They also mesmerize and misdirect us, so we won’t see them as they are.
Feast of Joy, in times when life is hard
Life was hard when God invited me to Sukkot, the Feast of Joy – and surprised me with the joy that is at once bedrock and a bubbling spring.
Spiritual schizophrenia and the two-headed snake
"How long will you try to go both ways?" Elijah cried. When God's people opt into spiritual schizophrenia, they empower a two-headed snake.
Facing shame – so freedom and favor can flow
Shame can torment and shackle us. Yet Jesus bore our sins. He bore our pain. He teaches us how to face and deal with shame, so freedom and favor can flow.
Weak but strong: Write and speak by the Spirit
“I am weak, but he is strong.” When we know that, ahh, then we can learn to speak and write the powerful words given to us by the Spirit of Christ within us.
Exhaling the life and breath of God
Exhaling the life and breath of God, you move by and with his Spirit. As you release what you've received from him, he sends out his life through you.
Inhaling the life and breath of God
Inhaling the life and breath of God, you open up to Christ in you. You’re filled with the Spirit. In the midst of real life, you really live.