The Bible is a love story between God and humanity, an intricate narrative about our evolving relationship across millennia. In the opening three chapters of Genesis, God creates humanity, after creating everything else. And in the final two chapters of Revelation, closing out the Bible in a glorious display of transforming power, God marries humanity, […]

I have two encounters with Christ to tell you about. The first concerns “Three Words” or sentences God said to me in April, 1985, while jogging in Glendale Cemetery, in Des Moines, Iowa. The second constitutes the major breakthrough of my finally experiencing Christ in me, Christ’s Heart fused with my heart. This happened back […]

Shortly before I entered seminary in 1972, I had an unforgettable dream about Jesus and love. It was the first time I experienced pure love for Jesus, deeper than I ever imagined. Let’s just say it was not a “normal” dream, at least not to me. Call it an “event.” And it answered a question […]

Sometimes you can be offered something you are not prepared to receive, something you do not understand at the time, something that might come back to haunt you years later. Haunt you not as a lost opportunity, but rather as a sudden sweeping realization of what really has been going on for decades, what the […]