Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me? (Is.57.11) When God withdraws himself from us the result is one of two things: either our hunger for God intensifies, or we become ambivalent toward him. If ambivalence rather than hunger dominates then we become…
In his book, Hopeful Imagination, Walter Brueggemann writes that only those who know how to grieve also know how to hope. “Suffering produces… hope” (Rom.5.3-5). It’s counter-intuitive and probably not a very exciting way to start a blog. People who haven’t suffered aren’t interested in hearing about it, and the…
Like most boys with too much energy and a back yard, I grew up playing war games with my brothers. We had pellet guns that fired little yellow plastic balls, we had spud guns that shot bits of potato, we made blow darts out of old Bic pens and sewing…
“I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord. “I will sweep away both man and beast…. I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against…. those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him….” (Zephaniah…
The Lord Almighty has a day in store ….when he rises to shake the earth -Isaiah 2.10-22 Next week I’ll begin the difficult follow up to The Message. This is a brief preface to that. In 2014 God began to speak to me from Haggai about the shaking…
I’m sure people in my church think I’m a bit kooky going on about judgement and sin and God being angry and all that. They can’t see why God could be angry with them – or anyone, for that matter. So perhaps I should explain it the way that God…
I don’t know if I’m crazy. I know that some people pretty close to me think I am. But how can you tell? All the crazies think they’re sane, and half the sane people think they’re crazy. All I know is that I have this thing inside me that gets…
Well, this has been a long time coming. I’ve put off writing this for several months, not really knowing whether it was time to speak, or how to say what I believe God is saying. Not that I haven’t tried. I’ve got half a dozen attempts at this post sitting…