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The Wardrobe at Wheaton

 June 14, 2013

The Wardrobe at Wheaton             I browsed the crowded dining room, tray in hand, looking for someone from the conference to sit with, when I saw the speaker from the previous night sitting by himself. Ordinarily I would never have been so bold as to sit with a speaker from a conference but he had […]

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Finding and Following Your Passion???

 May 31, 2013

Graduates through the nation are being told, “Follow your passion.” But what if your passion is to do God’s will? That leaves you with a broad range of possibilities. I love writing but I love God more. I love writing precisely because I experience God through writing. I feel close to God when I am […]

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Writing 2012

 May 23, 2013

I wrote this in January of this year but waited to post it until I felt ready to devote sufficient time to blogging.  Since then little has changed.  2013 is looking a lot like 2012.  So I thought I would go ahead and post now. Writing 2012 In 2012 I had one article accepted for […]

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Adventures in blogging

 May 16, 2013

I’m not much of a blogger. I’ve come into this in a back handed way. My first effort was to publish one of my novels one chapter at a time with the idea that it would go viral and result in a real publishing deal. I put out one chapter and when there was no […]

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Epilogue: For Thine is the Kingdom

 April 2, 2013

Epilogue – For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen. Doxology – Walter Brueggemann at a recent conference exclaimed that doxology needs to be exuberant, a self-abandonment in response to the inexplicable generosity of God.  Easter certainly is a time for doxology, exuberant praise of God for all God has […]

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Holy Week – Put Us not to the Test

 March 25, 2013

Week 7, Holy Week –Lead us not into Temptation and Deliver Us from Evil Psalms of Deliverance 7, 10, 12, 13, 17, 22, 26, 31, 35, 39, 44, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 64, 69, 70, 71, 74, 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85, 88, 90, 94, 108, 109, 120, 126, 137, 140, 141, […]

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Bible Study Week 6 – Forgive as We Forgive

 March 19, 2013

Bible Study -Week 6 Forgive Us our Sins as We Forgive Those who Sin against Us Penitential Psalms:  6, 25, 32, 38, 50, 51, 102, 106, 130, 143 Forgive us as we forgive.  We get another break this week in that we only have ten psalms to read, however the message is a powerful one, […]

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Bible Study Week 5 – Give Us this Day our Daily Bread

 March 11, 2013

Week 5  – Give Us this Day our Daily Bread Psalms of Supplication 5, 28, 36, 42, 43, 54, 61, 63, 86, 123 This week and the next we get a break as we prepare for the grand finale of Lent, Holy Week.  We only have ten psalms to focus on this week and next […]

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Bible Study week 4: Thy Will Be Done

 March 4, 2013

Bible Study, Week 4 – Thy Will Be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven Wisdom Psalms – 1, 37, 49, 73, 91, 112, 119, 127, 128, 133, 139 Liturgical – 15, 24, 134 Prophetic Exhortations – 14, 52, 53, 75, 81, 95 Historical – 78, 105 Out of all of creation, we are […]

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Bible Study Week 3 – Thy Kingdom Come

 February 26, 2013

Week 3 – Thy Kingdom Come Royal Psalms Messianic – 2, 18, 20, 21, 45, 72, 89, 101, 110, 132, 144 Canticles – 46, 48, 76, 84, 87, 122 Hymns of Yahweh’s Kingship – 47, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99 What does it mean to say God is king in our democratic society?  God is […]

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