Faith, Fiction, Friends

After Matthew 7:28-8:3   He finishes his words, what he wants to say. The ones around him remain silent; the rest of us are stunned. This ca...

After Matthew 7:24-27   I’ve always wanted a beach house, a home to face the waves, listening to the sounds of the gulls and the sea, embrac...

After Matthew 7:21-23   We gather ourselves in line, patiently walking forward, walking in expectation of recognition and  reward. We try no...

After Matthew 7:13-14   To enter this gate, this gate so narrow, remove all unnecessary clothes, stripping down to your underwear. To enter ...

After Matthew 7:13-14   False prophets are a dime a dozen. They speak at TED conferences, they write books, they have large followings in In...

After Matthew 7:13-14   It’s a narrow gate by which you enter. It’s a wide gate by which you’re swept along with the crowd, jostling, yellin...

After Matthew 7:12   If you would be canceled, then cancel others. If you would be criticized, then criticize others. If you would be judged...

After Matthew 7:7-12   If you ask, if you knock, if you seek, you have a promise, the promise that your question will be answered, that your...

After Matthew 7:7-12   The quest, the search begins with an act of embarkation, an act of commencement, of undertaking.  The quest doesn’t b...

After Matthew 7:7-12   The question begs to be asked, but  it has to be asked if it’s to be answered. Initiative is required, the initiative...

After Matthew 7:7-12   It looks ordinary, this door, an entrance to a house, a place unvisited before. It does not encourage or discourage; ...

After Matthew 7:1-6   You see it; it’s obvious, the speech in his eye, the flaw in his character, the behavior so objectionable, the prefere...

After Matthew 7:1-6   A simple question, really, a question of judgment, specifically, our own. It is not understanding or discernment we’re...

After Matthew 6:25-34   Before food, before drink, before clothes, before shelter, before happiness, before comfort, seek first the kingdom,...

After Matthew 6:25-34   Consider the lily, perhaps the rose. Nothing made by human hand is so beautiful, so intricately  designed and wrough...

After Matthew 6:25-34   They fly and flutter, chirp and squawk, soar and sing, land to find the wayward, unsuspecting worm or mouse or chipm...

After Matthew 6:25-34   You see the ads on television, momentary flashes across the screen, the ones for the new car, the vacation, the diet...

After Matthew 6:24   Money is an unforgiving master, stern in demeanor, whispering, always whispering of its beauty, its power, its desirabi...