Dear Friends, Winter officially closed out this past week. It failed to do its job in my part of the world, even though Coast Guard ice-breakers are at work opening 300 miles of frozen shipping lanes on Lake Superior. We are sun-baked and parched here in Southern California’s worst drought on record. We drove north […]
A Word of Grace
A Word of Grace – March 17, 2014
Dear Friends, Last week, I told the story of my friend Shon gently interceding to stop me from delivering a harsh and vindictive response to an injustice because she knew that such an action would not represent God’s best for my life. This is a continuation of that message. An old story echoed through my […]
A Word of Grace – January 20, 2014
Dear Friends, Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him in a body; and after winning over Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended on the king’s country for food. On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took […]
Word of Grace – January 13, 2014
Dear Friends, Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up… Hear then the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what […]
A Word of Grace – January 6, 2014
Dear Friends, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as […]