I am reading Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters by N. T. Wright, a brilliant historian and Bible scholar. I have gleaned from Wright’s books before, as resource material for my second New Testament novel, His Kingdom Come. I bought his new book because of…
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I can’t help but think about the love Jesus brought everywhere He went. This story is the next segment of the devotional eBook I’m working on making my way through the Gospel narratives of his life. In case you are new to this blog, the book is titled “Come and See” and this particular chapter…
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This is an excerpt from the eBook I’m working on. For those of you reading each week, I’m making my way through the Gospel narratives of Jesus’ life. This is the next chronological event and is based on the truth of the Scriptures. It’s an imaginative, artistic rendering of Jesus to, hopefully, inspire hearts, and help us to apprehend new…
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Onlookers, people like you and me, witnessed the unveiled mystery of heaven for the first time on the shoreline of the Jordan River. It was the day Jesus stepped into the river to be baptized. It was the moment in history when Jesus began to reveal God’s extravagant love. This was the day onlookers saw and heard, for the first…
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Last week I mentioned the eBook I’m hoping to publish. The following is Chapter 5: Heaven’s Carpenter Jesus was More Than Met the Eye Jesus left his glory and home in Heaven thirty years before he left house and home in Galilee. Leaving everything behind once more, the carpenter of Nazareth,…
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Have you ever noticed how sunflowers bend or turn to face the sun? It amazes me how much our hearts are so inclined to face the Son. We simply want Him and need Him. A while ago I felt dull towards God and said a simple prayer about it. Just mention this to Him and…
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One of my favorite authors is Brennan Manning. His books are filled with deep understanding of God’s love—and I don’t just read his books once—I return to them over and over again. He knows how to take the words of Scripture and make them apply to my life in ways that reach down deep inside…
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God cares for us more than what we do. I said this to a few people the other day after hearing that a mutual friend of ours had decided to take a rest from something she’d passionately hoped to accomplish for the Kingdom. Our friend felt she needed to focus on something else and let the vision go,…
Read moreMeasure your life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth For love’s strength standeth in love’s sacrifice And whosoever suffereth most hath most to give. –Hudson Taylor God has the most to give, has sacrificed the most, and loves the most. I just returned from a…
Read moreI am often enthralled by the ideas presented by mystical theologians. John Crowder writes like one in The Ecstasy of Loving God, a book I just came across the other day. What he says, and he quotes ancient and modern Christian mystics throughout the book, is that we are designed for bliss. Here’s what Bernard of Clairvaux…
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