Month: January 2014

Confession is a practice that can become very life-giving. Traditionally, confession refers to the act of admitting the wrongs we have done and asking for forgiveness. While acknowledging that there is value in doing that, there is a lot more we can receive from this practice that can foster...

Confession is a word that really needs to be reclaimed in our Christian circles. It has come to mean so many things that were never intended, that it is hard to unravel all the extra baggage. I will try to do that in several shorter posts rather than one...

I’ve read the story about the wedding at Cana many times (John 2), and frankly, have often thought of it as kind of a lame miracle. No one seems to be helped, beyond saving the head waiter some embarrassment. And people probably got a little more inebriated. In fact,...

Like many others, I grew up thinking that God stopped talking at the end of the first century when the last words of the Bible were written down, and today He speaks to us only through His Word. What follows here are eight good reasons why God would speak...

Imagine that you are given a set of watercolors and canvas from Kmart and asked to paint a picture. Would your first thoughts really be, “Now let’s see … What Would Rembrandt Do?” And why not? Well for me, my first reason is that I’m not Rembrandt. I can’t...