When the World Won't Settle
This is the world the Bible was written for. Most of us have been quietly assuming that stability is the baseline. It is not. The Scriptures are letters from the same trouble we are now in.
The Stones He Did Not Forget
The stoning of Paul at Lystra. It is hard to read it without thinking that Paul, lying in the dust outside the city, may have remembered another stoning — one he had once stood by and approved of.
The Contract You Never Signed
Most of us were never handed the terms explicitly. We absorbed them slowly, in Sunday school and sermon illustrations and the quiet pressure of being around people who seemed to have it together. The contract felt real. The problem is that God never signed it.
