Category: Meditations

“If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.” (Lk.9:23+)  These are hard verses. I don’t like to...

Jesus said, “The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eye is good, your whole body is full of light.” Apparently, what you see matters....

This morning I opened my email to find a message from two dear friends in Australia, letting me know they would see me in June. I found myself unable to hold back tears of relief and joy, as their faces came to mind and I remembered how they hold...

I need to be honest here — I’ve never liked this parable. It makes me feel bad. I feel ashamed because don’t like going out of my way and messing up my day to deal with someone else’s crisis. Especially when I don’t even know them. It might even...

“How precious is your steadfast love, O God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is th fountain of life; in your light...

“Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants” (Lk.8:7). Jesus describes life among these thorns as a life being overtaken by the cares and pleasures of life — of which there are plenty all around us here in the West. Now rest assured,...

What a terrifying thing to be hard soil! For if my only hope of recovery is to receive the sown word, what hope do I have if the seeds are all eaten by the birds before they take root in my heart?...

I have to say that for much of my life I was baffled by the way people could brush Truth (with a capital ‘T’) aside as if it were some kind of nuisance. Much of the time when I encountered Truth myself, I tried to change because I wanted to...

Wow! This parable brings up so many issues, it is hard to know where to begin. So this will be a multi-part posting over time. For today, I want to zero in on “the moral of the story” (Lk.8:4-18)....

In the space of 2 verses, Paul uses “love” as an adjective, a verb, and a noun....