Awe and Wonder
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I Will Pray With You
This is a guest post by my youngest son Jesse. I’ve realized something about myself… I love praying for people. Not because I have everything figured out. I don’t. Not because my faith has always been perfect. It hasn’t. But I know what it feels like to go through seasons where you’re carrying bad things…
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ASK
Scripture tells us, “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be open for you. Everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds; for everyone who knocks the door will be opened ” That’s Matthew 7:7 and 8. Miracles are within our grasp every…
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In the Beginning Was the Word
Earlier this week, my friend Bill in Denver shared an hour-long video with me entitled “Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything.” I decided to listen to it because in recent months, I’ve been engaged in two activities: Reading the Bible in a year on the Hallow app, and in a Bible study group with…
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Jesus Will Open the Door
I first conceptualized an afterlife without hell as I researched and wrote The Hamsa, my second novel set primarily in Poland from 1908 – 1945. Published in 2010, the researching and writing process took a full three years. During those three years, given the subject matter culminating in Auschwitz, I frequently contemplated good and evil,…
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Could You Not Stay Awake with Me
It is on this night in the Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus struggled as a man and as the son of God accepted the suffering of the world and absolved the sins of all creation. “… not what I want, but what you want.” Andrew Lloyd Webber captured Jesus’ agony in his song “Gethsemane,” performed…
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Keeping the Faith
My thoughts frequently return to the Book of Job. The Book of Job is the 18th book of the Hebrew Bible. It is considered the first of five books of poetry in the Old Testament: Job – a good man – loses everything including his health. The narrative acknowledges that bad things happen to good people,…