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A poem plus
September 10, 2016
Like air fresh-cleansed by rain, and shining grass in bright and gently sun- lit day . . . .
It’s a dangerous world. Trust God?
September 3, 2016
We know that ours is a dangerous world; but we are also told to trust God. How does this knowledge fit together with this advice?
Goodie we get to serve in a crisis
August 31, 2016
Serving in a crisis. Does the idea make you tense? Joyous? My first YouTube video shows the recipe. Hear responses to questions: What crises? How can we address multiple crises simultaneously?
Love and friendship
August 27, 2016
A friend, a true friend, a good friend—what a treasure! Time together is sweet. Time apart is sustained by a relationship that doesn’t need to be continually focused on. A marriage can enjoy such friendship. Friendship can pervade a group.
Survival plus
August 20, 2016
During this intense and complex vortex of change in our world, when we find ourselves overcommitted and daily life becomes hectic, how do we cope? Here’s the story of a method I developed which I call “survival plus.”
On ramps to the love highway
August 13, 2016
We need on ramps to love. Sometimes love is flowing and sometimes not. We find some people hard to love. . . .
The gospel and truth, beauty, and goodness
August 6, 2016
The gospel is eternal, saving truth expressed to meet the spiritual difficulties of generation after generation. The emerging philosophy of truth, beauty, and goodness is something different. How do they fit together? In two ways.
Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, just published
July 28, 2016
The gospel movement just got stronger. The gospel movement lives by the saving, refreshing, illuminating, living reality of a central galaxy of spiritual truths. The core truths of the family of God are on a level by themselves. Religion stands above all other realms of culture and life–and yet not independent of them: in our day to day experience, the various realms are interwoven. So gospel truth is surrounded by a complementary cluster of themes that empower your full life in God. That double cluster is found uniquely in the new book . . .
Is love stronger than hate?
July 23, 2016
Are love, mercy, and ministry stronger than hate, anger, and violence? Let’s be clear: love, here, means divine love, the love of God. . . .