When Love Shows Up

When God spoke to Abram, Abram was promised a future, a heritage, God’s blessing, and even a purpose: Through Abram, all the world would be blessed.

“Well,” I said very knowingly to someone much older, smarter, and wiser than me, “I just don’t believe we should let our religious beliefs influence

There is nowhere you can go that God isn’t.   There is no place where God is absent.   In one of my favorite Psalms the writer marvels

From time to time I have seen a quote by liberal personality John Fugelsang surface on social media. It’s about Jesus, and it goes like this:   “Jesus was a radical nonviolent revolutionary

Last week I wrote about one of Jesus’ more challenging teachings: It is a parable where the owner of a vineyard recruits laborers to work in his

We’re going to do a little Bible study today – which is, I know, unusual for this space. I was going to paraphrase this story that

Once upon a time I was talking with an atheist English teacher who believed in predestination. These are the kinds of conversations you have when

I’m going to read you a couple of Bible verses that have nothing to do with what I want to talk about today. I’m not trying to trick

I’ve always been short. I was the shortest boy in my class all the way into high school. There were a couple other short boys, but they

After Jesus’ resurrection he shows back up to see his friends and at first they do not believe it is him. Which, you know, fair enough. I think when

Growing up Christian, I was taught the Ten Commandments. One of those commandments was “Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain.” Like many of you, I was taught

Hey there. Welcome to When Love shows up, my podcast. And, we’re gonna do something a little bit different today. This past Sunday I preached