I am thinking back to our first Thanksgiving here in Portland. We had been here three months. Everything felt very strange. We were...

John 18:11 “Do you think for a moment I’m not going to drink this cup the Father has given me?” Peter here rose impulsively to your...

November for me means celebrating Thanksgiving; that often seems like America’s most overlooked holiday. Coming from New Zealand where...

[Disclosure: I have been reading very slowly through the Gospel of John for some time, pausing whenever a verse or phrase posed a...

In Christian theology, we hold to a doctrine of omnipresence, which in simple terms means that God is immediately present at all places...

Someone forgot to tell my blueberry bush that, actually, it is fall right now. And my neighbor’s Azalea bushes also failed to get the...

I wonder if you are enjoying expanding your horizon. As you seek to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and spend time with Father God in the...

An online study on the gospel of Matthew. Would I like to listen? Well, yes… Do you ever find yourself listening to a familiar Bible...

Can it really be nearly October? Do you ever find yourself feeling that the days rush by, the weeks vanish, the months…even the year...?...

More and more I am beginning to wonder if the answer is in stillness… that there really is no question… ...

It is not yet fall, just coming to the end of a very dry summer. The wind is softly moving the trees, the leaves are already beginning to...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you don’t have a clue what is going on? And yet, you are aware that something is...

Daffodils—I have always loved them—the first brilliant yellow that scares away the winter gloom. Yellow is my favorite color—the color of...

The unseasonably hot weather here in Portland has left the winter weariness seem a distant memory. But it is not really that many months...

I woke this morning early, although the sun had already beaten me, which is of course not difficult as we move towards the summer...

I find myself at home today with sick kiddos. And as I have thought and prayed about what the Lord wills for this day, I find an internal...

The spiritual disciplines, or spiritual practices, are the pathways that God has designed to help us grow in our relationship with Him....

Setting boundaries isn't selfish or unloving — it's self-care and love for others. We’ve been taught that boundaries are selfish, or...

Introduction Minimalism is a spiritual discipline of simplicity. It is not about getting rid of everything you own or squeezing yourself...

What is silence? Silence can be a powerful thing. It can be used to calm, to meditate and even to focus. But silence can also cause...