God Blogs

How do you know if a seeming message is from God? It will have these elements: It is clear and distinct, novel and unexpected. You do not forget it; its impact does not diminish over time. It gathers you toward wholeness; it contains mercy and grace, even in judgment. It is what you need to […]

Among the great truths we have difficulty taking in and truly believing, is that not only does God love; God is Love. No one states this more clearly than the Apostle John: “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does […]

The search for truth is also the search for God. And visa-versa. We see this clearly in the brief but haunting exchange between Jesus and Pilate, just before Christ’s crucifixion: Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this […]

Sometimes you get more than you thought you were asking for from God. God could just be waiting for you to ask; and note that once you do, you also grant God permission to give you what God had planned all along. That is apparently what happened to me during a lengthy prayer back on […]

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 want to give you a vision of prayer and what happens when you pray. To begin with, theology, or “God-talk,” is really a game of prepositions. Regarding Christian prayer, that signifies that all prayer is in the Person of the Son, to the Person of the Father, and through the Person of the Holy […]