Rule of Life
A Rule of Life is a means of ordering your world around God. It puts structure to your desire to know and follow Jesus.
Your Work Will Not Get It Done
Yom Kippur is holiest if days because it is the day of atonement, the day when sins are forgiven. It is an amazing time of spiritual practices and traditions pointing to a God’s grace and mercy. However, today, our Jewish brothers and sisters are lacking the key element of Rosh Hashanah and it’s culmination Yom
I Want it Now
To deny oneself is the worst of all sentences in today’s narcissist culture. It is driving almost everything and is, at its core, in violent opposition to the way of Christ. Veruca Salt portrays what was once an avoided Vice but has now become the anthem of much of our world. The antidote to this
The Secret of Shofar
I used to say that there was a murder in my house almost every day. For a while my wife and I were on a ‘Law and Order’ kick starting back in the 90s. Each episode there was a crime often, usually a murder, and the investigators and prosecutors would work together to attempt to
Duality of Worship
To be in the presence of a Righteous and Loving God is to be both terrified and comforted simultaneously. For God so loved the world He gave His son Jesus to die for sinners and give us new life! “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
Happy or Good
When Jan 1 is ushered in, people across our land and many around the world utter the phrase ‘Happy New Year!’ I remember a child’s song, If your happy and you know it clap your hands…. It goes on to say if your happy and you know then your face will surely show it…. We
A New Thing
The new year is a time of repentance letting the old pass away and the new be born. Death and birth are at the center of this tradition and at the center of the rhythm God has prepared for us to experience His grace. “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls