God Talk

Have you ever wondered, “Who am I?” Or “Why am I here?” Or “What is the meaning of my life – or of life itself?” Surely most all of us have. Whatever else we seek to do in our lives, we seek to find a meaning or purpose for life itself. The philosopher Nietzsche said, […]

Unforgiveness is like a black hole in the soul. It will not admit, but sucks away the light of love. Where there is unforgiveness, there is a heart hardening. Heart-hardedness leads to a self-imposed prison, and an inability to experience true freedom or joy. Unforgiving people are unhappy people. Someone said unforgiveness is like drinking […]

God does not always answer prayer. At least not in a way that we would know it for sure. We could of course tell ourselves that a non-answer is really a “no” answer–and no is certainly an answer, and God does say no to us, in effect if not in actual language. Then again there […]

What if the long anticipated “Second Coming” of Christ turns out to be as different from our expectations as the “First Coming” of Jesus was from the expectations of the Jewish people? That just may be what will happen. God, after all, is full of surprises.

The church is not “in Christ.” God is going to fix that. A spiritual migration is underway, as a new form, which is really the “old” form reborn, will soon make its presence known. It is all about the approaching union with Christ.

Sometimes you have to retreat in order to advance. Sometimes taking a time for silence, solitude and prayer can lead to a significant advance in your understanding of God. That is just what happened to me on a most memorable ten-day prayer retreat. I got what I went there to get, and much, much more. […]