Have you ever experienced scripture jumping off the page onto your lap, surprising with unexpected delight, a delight similar to how you might feel if a baby kangaroo leaped out of a bush onto your lap while you sat on a bench in a park? Scripture has the power to elicit such abounding joy from …
Grace is such a small, beautiful word, holding within it’s five letters the meaning, power and might of God’s bountiful gifts bestowed upon both the faithful and faithless, the deserving and undeserving, those in need, and those with enough. As I finished the last chapter this weekend of Philip Yancey’s What’s So Good About God, …
During a crisis a long while ago, when I faced my own fragile faith, a friend gave me a tiny charm filled with mustard seeds that I could wear on a necklace or bracelet. New to the Christian world, I didn’t have any sense about the relentless loyalty of a faithful God. I also read …