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I enjoy the challenge of a Word Scramble. You know, those word puzzles where the letters to a word are scrambled on the page. The word reads gibberish. Take for example: TIHFA. To solve this "scramble" I have to believe a real word can be made from the scramble of
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I was at a lecture on the Lord's Prayer given by nationally-renowned New Testament Scholar and Vanderbilt Divinity School professor Amy Jill Levine. She said the gestalt of Jesus's prayer is to live as if you have one more day before you die. Jesus is not being morbid, Levine said,
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Merry Christmas and welcome to my very first Soulful 7 Conversations "Christmas Edition." Wherever you are in heart, mind and spirit this Christmas season, I promise this conversation will give you a nudge of hope. It is my pleasure to introduce you to my colleague, mentor and friend Clay Stauffer.
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The story God is writing with our lives consistently leaves me stumped. Sometimes it makes no logical sense. It feels unjust. How could the hero die half-way through the story? As Paul says, we see through the mirror dimly here. Corrie Ten Boom, in her powerful memoir The Hiding Place,
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I cannot believe we are less than three weeks away from Christmas! I love picking out thoughtful gifts for the people I love! There is something in the list for everyone! Merry! Merry!
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God will never bully us to do something worthy and beautiful with our lives. The choice is always ours. But God will also never stop giving us opportunities to say, “Yes.” Christmas happened and continues to happen when we agree to birth any amount of goodness into this world. Mary
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