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Forgiveness Breaks Chains

Forgiveness Breaks Chains

In Luke Chapter 17, Jesus says the following to His disciples: “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.” Luke 17:3-4 NIV […]

When Bad Things Happen

When Bad Things Happen

Why do bad things happen? Are we really good people? Why do unfair things happen? These questions encircle and point towards a fundamental inquiry that has perplexed philosophers and theologians from every culture and age of human history, known as the “problem of evil.” Essentially, the problem of evil asks, “If God exists and is […]

What Could God Be Up To Right Now?

What Could God Be Up To Right Now?

We are certainly living in uncertain times.  Some would even say “we are living in unprecedented times.”  How many times have we heard that in the past few months? Little did we know in February that our state and much of the world would “shut down” for almost and that COVID-19 and Coronavirus would become […]

What A Week (Again…)

What A Week (Again…)

What a week. It’s the only words I could muster to describe what transpired in Minneapolis and St. Paul over the last 7 days. The irony is it’s the same words I used to describe the onset of a global pandemic that shook the very core of life as we knew it almost 3 months […]

Pressure Can Teach Us To Love

Pressure Can Teach Us To Love

Right now, many are asking “why.” Why is this happening to our world? Why is it being handled a certain way? Why are some of us losing jobs? Why are people so divided over this? It’s a confusing time to be a follower of Jesus, admittedly. Our world is undergoing a lot of pressure, and […]

Hope For The Sake Of Others

Hope For The Sake Of Others

In Matthew chapter 22, some of the Jewish leaders try to challenge Jesus by asking him what the greatest commandment is. Jesus summarizes the greatest commandment of the Hebrew scriptures this way:  Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this […]

Practicing Journaling

Practicing Journaling

“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.” Jeremiah 30:2 My first journal was given to me by my friend Nancy shortly after she introduced me to Jesus.  She gave it to me on one of our Saturday morning visits, sitting […]

Practicing Silence and Solitude

Practicing Silence and Solitude

In chapter 4 of Luke’s gospel account, just after a dramatic scene where Jesus is baptized in the Jordan river and the Holy Spirit descends upon him “in bodily form like a dove” (I’d call that a good day), he is “led around by the Spirit in the Wilderness.” The Greek word here for wilderness […]

Caring For Yourself

Caring For Yourself

April 13 marked one month since Minnesota’s Governor, Tim Walz, restricted social gatherings because of COVID-19. I don’t know about you, but it almost feels like a whole year has flown past! We are living in an odd tension of backwards agendas, new routines, slow days, fast weeks, rediscovered purposes and a whole lot of […]