OUT OF THE DEPTHS (January 31, 2025)
“When I’m deep in a hole, lower a rope, not a shovel.” The last thing we need when we’ve dug ourselves profoundly into pain or confusion or sin is more of the same. Our best efforts got us there: our ...
30 Jan 20252min
NO JANUARY AUDIT (January 24, 2025)
It’s a scene played out 10 million times in the 30 days since Christmas: “You shouldn’t have . . .” “But I didn’t get you anything. . .” “I didn’t hear we were exchanging gifts . . .” A stranger from ...
23 Jan 20252min
GRACE BEFORE WE PRAY (January 17, 2025)
That impulse in our souls to pray—to find our knees; to stammer out the words—grows from an early, dim awareness of just how much we need the grace of God. We pray because we cannot fix our world or o...
16 Jan 20252min
GRACE WILL LEAD US HOME (January 10, 2025)
Like all the stories Jesus told, this one comes very close to home. We justly celebrate the prodigal. He finds himself among the pigs, then soberly concludes that he should go back home. And we deplor...
9 Jan 20252min
