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Everyone’s got a story to tell.  Each of us treads a unique path through this gifted experience we call life on earth and I look forward to someday watching the video highlights of my fellow time travelers’ lives on some kind of heavenly Cinemax screen.  What follows is a brief description of my own journey […]

Inscribed on the pedestal of Job shown above are the words, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” (Job 13:15)…. now why would anyone trust in someone who would slay them? Sounds crazy, unless the “slayer” were also known to be the Potter, who although first having marred the pot that He

Perhaps you can recall the heretofore oft quoted poetic refrain that so succinctly captures the paradoxical mystery embodied in the act of truly loving an-other… “If you love something, set it free; If it comes back, it’s yours… If it doesn’t, then it never was anyways” A beautiful sentiment indeed, though seldom fully realized in

Okay, you have read this far and perhaps you are finding this radical “Universal Salvation” idea a bit hard to swallow. After all, if we are all going to be redeemed, then what’s the use in even attempting to lead a productive life of obedience to God or of charity towards others? Why not just

Upon finishing a first read of the entire Bible cover to cover over the course of the three years ending in my 25th, I paused to take note of what I had learned.  Regrettably, it had simply reinforced what I had already discovered from my previous quarter century of study while attending church – namely

There exists in human nature an insatiable desire for answers to life’s deepest questions, to make sense of it all.  Our souls crave a larger basis for the meaning of our existence beyond that of mere survival or personal whim.  But just as we are prone when hungry to settle for artificial foods which do

In this politically correct 21st century world in which we live, there exists a strong tendency to prohibit discrimination of any kind.  We are taught to celebrate all viewpoints and all lifestyles as equally valid.  All truth is subjective.  After all, who’s to say that the path one person chooses to take should be assigned

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.”  (Matthew 23:13  NIV). “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You

“FREEDOM!!!”… bellows the soulful cry of Sir William Wallace in the epic story “Braveheart” as he accepts certain death in preference to bending a knee to tyranny.  It is primal to the human experience, this innate passion to be free, to control one’s own destiny as the master of one’s fate.  This sacred desire is

There is a common misconception concerning the supposed desire of God to ascribe all glory to himself as Create-or of this awesome universe in which we reside and for the grand results of his immense sacrifice in bringing the wretched lives of at least a chosen sampling of his wayward children to a heavenly consummation.  

A Gospel message in a whimsical children’s story… what kind of nonsense is that anyways? Have I completely lost my grip on reality? No, actually it is the central reality of this world in which we live that the Gospel may be found everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and under every rock. It is

The full spectrum of human behavior from tender compassion to inexplicable cruelty is played out around the globe each day.  A fortunate child rests peacefully in the womb of a nurturing young mother while in the house next door another lay captive to a woman seeking clinical services for disposal of her unwanted “fetal tissue”. 

As with so many of the Biblical narratives the story of “The Good Samaritan” has commonly been used simply to coax us into better behavior more befitting of one seeking a place in God’s kingdom; in this case we are told to be like the unassuming Samaritan who renders aid to a man down on

Although by no means comprehensive in scope, I have now explored the main topics that I would consider central to the discussion of God’s ultimate plan for reconciliation of all creation. Still there remain a few important subjects alluded to in other posts which will be addressed here briefly in a serial format beginning with

As discussed previously, within the covers of the Bible you are sure to find whatever conclusion you would care to believe concerning the final destiny of mankind.  However, through the lens of the Gospel with the eyes of a child the clouds of confusion dissipate, revealing God’s immutable intention to win us all back to