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
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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 – February 10, 2014
Dear Friends, Only we who believe can enter his rest (Heb 4:3, NLT). I referenced a family vacation in a lecture to a university class one evening. At the end of class, the oldest student in the class did not leave the room and remained seated at her desk. She was tall blonde woman in
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