This morning’s entry comes sandwiched between readings from the last days of John the Revelator and a second read through a small book...

Still thinking about how difficult we make this religion thing! We laugh when stories are shared of ridiculous things done in life, often...

This morning as I picked up the letter from my old friend John, I John, I had not read two verses into this lover’s plea, until I was...

“So the Christian, too belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes.   ‘The Kingdom is to be in the midst...

This week, I was reminded by a dear friend and blog subscriber that I should get back to my writing.  I have surely been distracted for...

Sometimes I believe that the reason I am in politics is more to observe people than to serve them, though the latter is my calling.  The...

I have not been able to get past a scripture read earlier in the week, Luke 20:20…in fact now another thought comes to mind as I write:...

These were the words I heard in my spirit a couple weeks ago, as I struggled with why I would give more of my time and risk more of my...

This morning as I was doing my reading, now a wide range of inputs from scripture to Facebook, I came across a fact that began to carry...

I continue to be amazed at how the scriptures read so differently each time I pass through the pages of my Bible.  The text never changes...

This morning my devotional reading has carried me into Matthew, arriving at the Beatitudes.  However, of more interest to me than the...

I continue to be amazed at the encouragement that I am experiencing around my study of Judah and Joseph this year.  For those who have...

I sit here this a.m. reflecting on almost 40 years of service to the church and to my community.  Grateful for the scores of lives...

This morning and particularly with the events planned for this coming week, there seems an almost overwhelming awareness to the growing...

I was praying just a few weeks ago about how entrenched I was becoming in the political arena, and in fact, that it had been sometime...

Occasionally a strange sensation seems to overtake me in the early morning hours.  I will begin to emerge from my sleep with an idea, not...

This title is neither my lack of spell check nor the ornery slip of a smart phone word substitution, but rather  an intentional play on...

There are few things I enjoy more than processing my early morning thoughts on a day not overly planned.  Maybe I am too self-absorbed? ...

This strange title came to me as I opened my heart to write this a.m.  I look forward to my early morning, post devotional processing;...

The last few weeks have provided such personal “aHa” moments as I continue to regroup and allow God to reconstruct my leadership...