what jingles your bells about Christmas? #TopTen
So what would make it onto your “Top Ten Things I Love About Christmas” list? What floats your boat about this time of the year? What do you consider indispensable? What jingles your bells?
Tag: Jesus
legalism is easier than belief
Maybe our problem is that in order to believe in Jesus we have to stop believing in ourselves? Wasn’t that – isn’t that – the original sin? Believing in ourselves and walking right by the invitation Jesus so graciously extends?
what if we “clicked” on beauty and love, and let division and hatred die for lack of interest?
What if we turned the tables on hate by setting the table for love?
the deep meaning of communion is found in community, mercy, and grace…
The mystery, the deep spirituality of communion, comes not from the hands of the priest but from the hearts of the people.
The grace of Jesus is the alternative to the judgments of failed religion…
God’s view erases all of the petty, ill-fitting, bigoted, legalistic, reactive, “I know better than God”, hypercritical narrowness of what I like to call, “Lightly Christianized religiosity.”
when death helps explain life
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever
hope for the future of the church…
After our grandson’s “graduation” from preschool, I stayed in Richmond overnight for a couple of reasons. First, of course, the opportunity
It’s still Saturday – the stone has yet to be rolled away…
It’s still Saturday – and the stone has yet to be rolled away…
“Your Renewal is Enclosed”
When I first started writing (it was short meditations for our young families class in Pensacola), I focused a lot
“Jesus came for all the ornaments…”
Elements of this story have been kicking around for years; not only is it one of my favorites, but it
