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April 2025

April 23, 2025
April 24th is National Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. That’s fine for...
April 20, 2025
In the resurrection, Jesus employed all five senses to display God's grace. Whatever your learning...
April 17, 2025
When you’re grieving, you expect certain feelings while others come as a surprise. But there...
April 14, 2025
"I don't believe in God," she said. "But I do believe in Life with a...
April 10, 2025
Most people want power and recognition. But Jesus says that to be first, you must...
April 07, 2025
On busy streets, attentiveness means survival. In spiritual life, learning to stop, look, and listen...
April 03, 2025
Not all angels have wings. Sometimes God’s messengers smoke snipes, smell like beer, and sleep...

March 2025

March 31, 2025
Southern Baptist church autonomy (read: anarchy) causes problems for the ordination of ministers. They're like,...
March 27, 2025
What is ordination? Does the Church still need it today? Rethinking ordination, we’ll look at...
March 24, 2025
"Are you still an ordained minister?" my friend asked me. I hesitated. "Well, that's a...
March 20, 2025
In life's turmoil, Lao Tzu says you can find divine creation within. The eternal Christ...
March 17, 2025
The term "demonic possessions" suggests devils enslaving people. But it's really the demonic grip a...
March 13, 2025
The Bible depicts God as a divine Wellspring, the Source of all that is. Renaming...
March 10, 2025
Hudson Taylor said that Missionaries should live and dress like the people they seek to...
March 06, 2025
Do you feel misunderstood because of your spirituality? When the spiritual life feels lonely, Jesus...
March 03, 2025
Feeding wild animals teaches them to treat you as a food source. Or as the...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
Are old names for God limiting your faith? Renaming God as "The Way" and "The...
February 24, 2025
Jesus and Lao Tzu warn against good intentions like knowledge, wisdom, charity, and righteousness. They...
February 20, 2025
What's on your bucket list? In just a few days, I will achieve a lifelong...
February 17, 2025
I live on one side of the US/Canada border and work on the other. Because...
February 13, 2025
Christians spend so much energy trying to live right! But are we exchanging the best...
February 10, 2025
Too often, people abandon spirituality because Christians give God a bad name. But renaming God...
February 06, 2025
Recently, someone told me that Christianity needs a new holiness movement. I agreed with them—but...
February 03, 2025
Many know that George Lucas based The Force in his Star Wars movies on the...

January 2025

January 30, 2025
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Trump claimed to be a god in his...
January 27, 2025
If you’re not careful, you might believe the religious rhetoric coming out of Donald Trump’s...
January 23, 2025
Donald Trump had a lot to say about religion in his second inaugural speech. What's...
January 20, 2025
Our biggest problem is we have wandered away from our Source. Jesus and Lao Tzu...
January 16, 2025
Once, I would have told you that tree-hugging New Agers were nuts! But a careful...
January 13, 2025
Christians disparage Neopagans for believing in nature spirits. But both share a belief in animism--the...
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