Faith, Fiction, Friends

After Zephaniah 3:14-20   Forget the humiliation, forget the shame. The Lord is singing over you.   He takes away the judgments against you....

After I Peter 4:12-19   If you suffer for his name’s sake, be unashamed, be alert, be awake.   If suffering comes, then glorify God; trust y...

After I Peter 4:12-19   On the horizon and in your face, the trials will come, so bear with grace.   The fires will test, the trials will ha...

The entire  spring issue of Cultivating Oaks  is devoted to the theme of grace. Published are stories by Lancia Smith, Malcolm Guite, Annie ...

After Galatians 1:1-5   His authority set and stated, he pronounces grace and peace to those reading and listening. It’s something he  usual...

After Ephesians 2:1-10 It comes as a spark, a change from without, a touch from the fingertips of God, a gift, creating lif...

After Romans 8:26-30 Before the call, a purpose. Before the call, foreknowledge, coupled with a predetermination, a pre...

After Exodus 6:1-8 We’re looking at this in the wrong way. He’s not on the mountaintop; we don’t find our way to the top ...

After Romans 4:1-12 It’s about subtraction and addition. Faith, that is. The formula: sin is subtracted, evil is taken away...

After Romans 4:1-12 It’s almost a question of math, this counting business. Simple addition on a tally sheet as you keep trac...

After Romans 3:21-31 Can’t boast, can’t take credit, can’t crow and preen, can’t show or perform, can’t demonstrate, can’...

After Romans 8:26-28 A well of darkness, cold, the only company a shaking, shivering. The voice rises through the stones, w...

After Luke 14:1-11 He is the point, or the example: the man with dropsy, standing there as they sit for a meal, a man proven ...

After Psalm 1 Not the law as we consider it not the compilation of statutes    and strictures not the assembly of precedents ...

After Psalm 73:1-17 It’s always worked before. Drop in my coin, a nickel or a quarter, turn the crank, and out pops the gumba...

After Psalm 107:47 The moaning, groaning cries pour from the carnivorous mouth, a siren song that compels and draws, a song t...

After Psalm 107:10-14 The prison is cold, and damp, a generator of a chill that freezes and dries the soul, the scurrying sou...

After Psalm 107:4-7 Wandering. Arid. Dry. Parched. Seering. Desert. Heat overpowering. No protection from sun or wind or hear...

After Psalm 107 Wait a minute, we’re all supposed to be good, right, I mean, it’s not like we’re Hitler, right, we make mistake...