Dear Friends, Hello from stormy Stowe, Vermont where I am at a client meeting. I have been traveling since September 13 and took a break from writing these messages. This is the tenth message in a series on the sea stories of Jesus. Matthew was the tax collector in Capernaum (Mark 2:13-14). Because fishing and […]
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A Word of Grace – September 4, 2012
Dear Friends, This is the seventh message in a series about the “sea” stories of Jesus. An often overlooked connection to the story of Jesus quieting the storm in part six of this series, is what happened the next morning. Jesus left the boat and confronted a legion of demons that possessed a man and […]
A Word of Grace – August 27, 2012
Dear Friends: The Sea of Galilee is 685 feet below sea level, the lowest freshwater body of water in the world. It sits in the Jordan Rift, a fault zone with steep hills and mountains all around it. The Mediterranean Ocean is only 27 miles to the west. West winds blow off the Ocean and […]
A Word of Grace – October 10, 2011
Dear Friends: There is a rare place on a Southern California sky island where the black oak, locusts, willows and cottonwood trees change color in October. One has to hike in several miles to a secluded valley to find the gold tinged with orange. I have retreated there several fall seasons to deal with personal […]
A Word of Grace – September 19, 2011
Dear Friends: Rummaging around the Word of Grace archives this weekend, I came across a 2001 message that was originally an entry in my journal during March of that year. It describes the last visit that I had with my parents in their own home before illness and the advance of years brought their lives […]