When He Comes in the Hunger (Part 2)
Each time we see or taste of Jesus, He takes more of our hearts as His own. And later we are left to wonder why He took a part of us, and then left our hearts to long for Him … Read more
Each time we see or taste of Jesus, He takes more of our hearts as His own. And later we are left to wonder why He took a part of us, and then left our hearts to long for Him … Read more
Time stood still, a deep inward groan somehow managing to drown out the sounds of my kids at play in the backyard and pull me from the dinner preparations sprawled before me, half-readied. The ache that leaves me immobile at … Read more
Anything that cools the flames of love, John Wesley said, that is what ‘the world’ is. The little phrase has stayed with me all week. For in our approach to passages like the following, we often treat the world as … Read more
I’m moved again by the young girl from Bethany, pouring her costly perfume of spikenard over Him just days before His death. She knew who He was. And her response alone showed Him the extravagance fitting for His identity, while … Read more
The more I grow in loving and knowing Jesus, the more I see how utterly dependent I am upon His upholding of my heart. I cannot keep my own heart alive. Every point of progress and each forward movement is … Read more
While in the heights of the Colorado mountains last week, I wrote… It was the smallest little aspen tree that just rebuked me, and took my heart by surprise by its soft scolding. As I watched it avail itself to … Read more
We were made for a story and the human heart longs and yearns to play a deep and lasting role in a grand epic tale. Each of us not only wants to hear the story, we not only want to … Read more