MORE OF HOW TO KEEP JESUS IN MIND One of my favorite devotionals is Streams in the Desert. I highly recommend it. The January 17 entry is about Dr. John Douglas Adams’ greatest spiritual asset. Dr. Adams spoke of “his unwavering awareness of the actual presence of Jesus.” Furthermore he said Christ was at the […]
GUSTAV MAHLER’S 4TH SYMPHONY Last week, I heard the Minnesota Orchestra play Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major. Halfway through, I was visited with a metaphor. Osmo Vanska conducted the orchestra and a vocalist sang “Life in Heaven” in the third movement. As the composition captured my imagination, I saw Jesus conducting God’s music […]
LUSH GRASS I stilled my mind this morning until it was a dry empty plain devoid of vegetation. After a while, lush grass appeared to fill what had been barren. And I heard in the depth of my spirit, “This is of Me for you. You did nothing to bring it about.”
NO END TO IT From the time I started first grade to the time I completed two graduate degrees, there seemed to be no end to what I could learn from school. And what I have learned from all the books I’ve read and what I have yet to learn from all the books I […]
IT IS FINISHED When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:30 If it was finished, it had to have started someplace. And it did with Adam and Eve. The Father, at that point, started the history of man, recorded […]
START LISTENING I have great respect for the words of David Wilkerson, the founder of Teen Challenge. I encountered this passage in the February 2, 2015 issue of World Challenge Pulpit Series. “So when we enter His presence, we start by talking. But many of us end up doing all the talking and no listening. […]