Author: Steve

  • May 29, 2024
    GOD’S HISTORY OF SURPRISES Approaching the problem of racism from the perspective of a redemptive God means acknowledging our sins…
  • May 17, 2024
    Where are denominations headed? What will they look like in the future? As I understand it, denominations developed more in…
  • May 15, 2024
    Never Off the Clock (Noah was the first to plant a vineyard.) It is the end of another long exhausting…
  • May 10, 2024
    EFFECTS OF GRIEF DENIAL “I didn’t lose a child,” I say, feeling irritation rising in me. “My focus was the…
  • May 8, 2024
    RESEARCH Ariel pops up and heads to the kitchen for the bottle of wine and three glasses. "I'll also get…
  • May 3, 2024
    MY BODY BEGINGS TO SHAKE I'm silent as she holds me. Then the strangest thing begins to happen. I feel…
  • May 1, 2024
    END OF THE DAY   I can't tell you anything that happens from the time I leave the church until…
  • April 26, 2024
    AN INVITATION TO TRUST A REDEMPTIVE GOD Using the cross and the resurrection as our template for how God works…
  • April 24, 2024
    CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS How would our prayers of confession be different if we tried to reflect Christ as a body…
  • April 19, 2024
    GOD’S HISTORY OF SURPRISES Approaching the problem of racism from the perspective of a redemptive God means acknowledging our sins…