Knowing

Knowing

“And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper...
Earthen Vessels

Earthen Vessels

Babies are pretty incompetent. I mean that in the nicest way possible, but it’s true—at least for human babies. The animal kingdom is a whole different story. Take giraffes. When a giraffe gives birth to her calf, the baby falls about six feet and hits the...
A Letter in a Shoebox

A Letter in a Shoebox

In a decorative shoebox, sitting on the fourth shelf of the bookcase in our living room, is a letter I spent the past year and a half avoiding. I knew who wrote it. I knew why they wrote it. I knew what it was about and I knew, deep in my heart, that reading it would...
Standing at the Threshold

Standing at the Threshold

“Are you ready?” That’s the question I keep getting. It makes me laugh. Am I ready? Am I ready for my life to change in ways I’ve never experienced before? Am I ready to begin a stage of my life I can only comprehend in a fuzzy, theoretical...
When God Is Silent

When God Is Silent

Between the last page of the Old Testament and the first page of the New sits about 400 years of silence. Four. Hundred. Years. Four hundred years without a recorded prophet. Four hundred years without a message or a story or any kind of preserved word from God. For...