Dear Friends, This will be the last message until October 10,  the week of the eighteenth anniversary of the Word of Grace messages. Everything is fine with me, but I need to take a short hiatus to tend to something else. Thank you for subscribing or reading when someone else passes it on to you. […]

Dear Friends, It is 15 years ago this weekend since the horror of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I looked back at the message I sent out the week after the attack in curiosity about how my thinking may have changed. Here is an updated version of the same message. My thinking hasn’t changed. As […]

Dear Friends, I share with you today one of those Scriptures which illumines how God will use even those things we despise and fear to help us move forward in his will. The Lord said: . Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the […]

Dear Friends: This is the seventeenth and last message in a series on Jesus’ encounter with the woman at Jacob’s well recorded in John 4. It’s a remarkable conversation that covers a number of issues from the personal to the theological, the social to the deeply spiritual. I have enjoyed this series. I spent the […]

This is the sixteenth message in a series of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well recorded in John 4. Dear Friends: Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him […]