Over the 2009 holidays I fed my belly with lumpia, atole, chocolate cake—everything that came out of my kitchen. ...
Parenting is a balancing act, is it not? And it's a hard balancing act. It's not like walking a wire where you have to keep from falling to the right or to the...
There is a certain art to handling conflict. One part of that art is to be sure that you are dealing with truth and not taking your anger out on someone who doesn't...
I remember introducing someone to the wide-open world of Google. It was a few years ago, about the time “Google” the proper...
I grew up in a family entrenched in ministry. I saw shepherding and serving as difficult and thankless. My parents often burned-out...
To this day, neither of us can remember how it began. Did I comment on her blog first, or did she comment...
She sits quietly in my office, hands folded nervously, tears streaming silently down her face. Her visit to meet me, a patient...
I remember reading in the late 1980s that because of computers and their productivity we were entering a world of limitless free time, a calm and creative age.
But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"
After Jesus was arrested, he was taken to the home of the high priest, where he was interrogated by Jewish leaders from...
I don’t know about you, but my first response to this section of Jesus’ sermon is one of considerable uneasiness.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified ... for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
"We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body."
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!”
“As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For, he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped...
The Gospel can sound crazy and nuts, giving anyone reason to reject it.
I have the tendency to ask my loved ones to pay attention to all the great things I’m doing.
Jesus used this healing to demonstrate that his cleanliness is more powerful than her uncleanliness.
I have heard miracles described not as things that should not be, but instead as revealing the way things should be.
