In Matthew 20.1-16 we find Jesus teaching again by parable. To my understanding the sum of it is fairly simple. God chooses we who agree...

Anyone seeing this can either read or has a voice output on their device, but I'm sitting at one of my fave Chicago libraries just...

Not with "flesh and blood" writes Paul which in various ways we humans are so prone, primed and propaganda-ed to do. Yet "Fight the good...

I have long believed that both church and world history teaches us there is no one/absolute/this-is-how-it's-done culture. Culture is all...

In searching for something else I found something today that I'd sent out to just 6 key people in August of 2015. Here it is. Did I ever...

There are of course a massive and wide range of art forms and ways to apply them. I recently was blessed to hear a pastor friend of mine...

You might wonder about me (HA... plenty do!). So... why do I continually study and communicate in areas of history, anthropology,...

To "get a life" I believe you have to have it given to you -and on the other hand you've got to be open to receive it from God the Giver,...

I, like many reading this can be prone to excess, but can anyone love God as He desires us to - really love Him excessively ? Can we...

This post is super-brief considering a massively important issue. He is perfectly faithful, we flawed humans are faithful and sometimes...

So it's Christmastime again. What does it mean and why bother except for a few days off from work for most in the Western world? Luke 2...

Imagine being wrongly charged, jailed awaiting trial, having to live in a cell a quarter size of your bedroom with another person (who...

Isaiah refers to Messiah Jesus as "Wonderful Counselor" among other amazing and beautiful elements of His Person, indeed, His deity. (see...

All humans have a "cannon of scripture" so to speak. Oh yes we each and all do! It's inside our own heads, written and at times changed,...

I sometimes laugh a bit about the barn-sized shot taken at "the church" regarding it's (our) sins, hypocrisy and lack of love- as if both...