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Justice. Mercy. Humility

A meditation on Micah 6:8 in the age of air-raid sirens and culture wars there’s a dull thud in the distancebut the tremor reaches our screens in real time Khan Younis… 70 people fall while waiting for flour Gaza’s toll climbs past 55,000 names no algorithm can pronounce meanwhile war planners debate bunker-busters for Tehranand reporters chart which U.S. bases are close enough to launch the…

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Letters From The Edge

A Meditation on Revelation 2 What do you say to a church that’s lost its love? What do you say to a people who are doing all the right things… working hard, enduring suffering, spotting false teachers from a mile away… but their hearts have gone numb? You say Revelation 2. You say… remember. There’s this moment, in the letter to the church in Ephesus, where the resurrected Jesus says: “Yet…

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EXILE

And other places God shows up. [A meditation on Revelation 1] the island there’s an old man on an islandand he’s alonereally alonethe kind of alone that makes you wonder if anyone remembers your name patmos.rocky.isolated.the roman empire’s way of sayingwe don’t want to hear from you anymore but here’s the thing about exile…sometimes it’s exactly where heavendecidesto show up. sunday…

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What If You're The Treasure?

A Meditation on Matthew 13:44-46 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” Jesus says,the kingdom of…

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The Scroll and the Lamb

A Meditation on Revelation 5 There’s a scroll. It’s sealed.Seven seals deep.In other words…completely locked, untouchable, unknowable. This scroll holds the story.The meaning.The healing.The justice.The redemption.The unraveling of everything that’s wrongand the unveiling of what is right. And the question is:Who is worthy to open it? And the room gets still.All of heaven holds its…

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Tables, Wine, and the Wild God

A meditation on John 2 There’s a wedding.There’s a feast.There’s a crisis.There’s a God who saves the best wine for last. John 2 isn’t just a story.It’s a sign.A disruption.A whisper.A shout. The wedding at Cana is where the divine touches the mundane, where water, ordinary and utilitarian, is transfigured into celebration.Into joy.Into the best wine they’ve ever tasted. Which says something,…

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When the noise breaks, the Voice speaks

A Journey Through Psalm 34 (included at the end) There’s something sacred about being undone. Not in the way the world talks about coming undone…like a meltdown or a failure or a moment where everything spirals out of control. No, I’m talking about the kind of undoing where all the noise finally drops, where your white-knuckled grip on trying to manage everything loosens just long enough for…

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Come Up Here!

A reflection on Revelation 4 It begins with a door.Always a door. John, exiled, isolated, alone… and yet somehow more awake than the emperors and elites who sleep in marble palaces.He hears a Voice, like a trumpet, like thunder cracking through silence. “Come up here…”The invitation isn’t to escape reality…It’s to see reality as it actually is. We think of Revelation as catastrophe.But this…

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So We Do Not Lose Heart

A meditation on 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore. That’s how Paul begins this part of the sentence. “Therefore.”A hinge. A pivot. A breath before revelation.It’s as if he’s saying, In light of everything…the affliction, the confusion, the groaning of creation and the groaning within…let me tell you how we survive the ache.How we don’t quit. How we don’t crack under the weight of a world that…

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This Is That

Reflecting on Acts 2:14-41 Peter stood up. The same Peter who once sank into the waves.Who denied the Christ by a flickering fire.Who ran when the sky turned dark and the veil tore in two. That Peter. He stands up now…not just in courage, but in Spirit. Because something has shifted.Something new has broken in.Something ancient and future, mysterious and real.Something that makes people stop…

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Still Breathing: John 20:20-29

They had locked the doors.For fear.For shame.For wondering if the whole thing was over. All the promises.All the miracles.All the momentum.Gone. And then…Jesus comes through the locked door. Not past the lock.Not around the lock.Through it. Like grace always does. And what does He say? “Peace be with you.” Not, “Where were you?”Not, “Why did you run?”Not, “I told you so.” Just……

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She Stayed: John 20:1-18

It was still dark.Early.Too early for clarity.Too early for answers.But she went anyway. Because grief doesn’t care about sunrise.And love doesn’t wait for convenience. So Mary showed up. No plan.No strategy.Just tears.And questions. She sees the stone rolled away,Runs, tells the others.Peter and John race back,Peer in,See linen,Then leave. But she stays. Let that settle in. She…

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A Christmas Prayer

I am drawn to the simplicity of this “Christmas Prayer” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Our world is in need of the center line of the prayer which is, “Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world.” Read and pray this prayer slowly. Let it get into your bones and your soul. A CHRISTMAS PRAYER Loving Father, help us to remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song…

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Christmas Stories 2

Shipwrecked at the MangerBrennan Manning Do you think you could contain Niagara Falls in a teacup? Is there anyone in our midst who pretends to understand the awesome love in the heart of the Abba of Jesus that inspired, motivated, and brought about Christmas?  The shipwrecked at the stable kneel in the presence of mystery. God entered into our world not with the crushing impact of unbearable…

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Go To Dark Gethsemane

Good Friday reminds me that darkness must proceed resurrection. Good Friday reminds me that pain and suffering, the blood sweat and tears of life, are part of the journey, not something to avoid, minimize or deny. Good Friday reminds me that when life reaches the apex of darkness, the light of dawn is thinly close. In the Garden of Eden humanity experienced the divine disconnect. There Adam chose…

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Captivity Liberation Shadow & Light

-shadow and light- Passion Week, or Holy Week, continues to be a season in my life where the veil between heaven and earth exhibits an opaqueness allowing me to gaze more deeply into myself and the heart of God. From the Triumphal entry to the empty tomb, I have learned that life is a journey of captivity, liberation, wilderness, and freedom. Learning the layered lessons embedded in the Passion…

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Captivity Liberation Shadow & Light

Captivity Liberation Shadow & Light

Passion Week, or Holy Week continues to be a season in my life where the veil between heaven and earth exhibits an opaqueness allowing me to gaze more deeply into myself and the heart of God. From the Triumphal entry to the empty tomb, life is a journey of captivity, liberation, wilderness, and freedom. Learning the layered lessons embedded the Passion of Yeshua is worthy of a lifetime of…