Coffee on the Couch, Part 2 Part 2 of my interview on Coffee on the Couch is now live. The link is https://bit.ly/coffeeonthecouchpart2 In this podcast interview, Chris (the host) and I cover the following books: The Bible Revealed in 10 Stories How I escaped from Depression Arm in Arm with the Holy Spirit If […]
A Most Important Question Years back, when I was visiting my mother in a nursing home in Hankinson, North Dakota, I asked her a question to make sure she would be safely tucked away in heaven when she died. “Mother, if you died tomorrow and were standing outside the gates of heaven, and St. Peter […]
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. That is, those who are poor in themselves and rich in Christ. In not too long, I will be physically dead; it looms sooner and sooner. I cannot choose for it not to happen, but I can choose to tamper down the […]
GOD IN THE ABSTRACT For many “Christians,” God is in the abstract – words, thoughts, knowledge, beliefs. All dry. All unsustainable. They do not experience Jesus Christ as real much of the time, as alive within them, as working through them. That is their problem in becoming “real believers.” They are not in touch with […]
GOD’S WORLD Whose world do I live in – my world or God’s world? In my world, I pray from my perspective. “Help restore this broken relationship? Let (fill in the blank) win the upcoming election. Help my friend get the job he has applied for. Heal the cancer of this godly woman.” In God’s […]
I see a picture in my mind of Jesus living within me, which is a picture based on fact. I follow behind Him, as the apostles did. What do you want me to do here, Lord? What do you want me to do there? What do you want me to think? That is a personal […]
Every Monday, I go to a small-group prayer meeting at my church. We start each session by looking over a list of prayer requests and talk about this and that. As usual, the list yesterday was filled mainly with health concerns and requests for healing. Some of the people for whom healing was asked we […]
1 Corinthians 3:16 “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own. You were bought at […]
MY FLEETING LIFE My days fly by in fleeting fashion. My whole life is but a blink in the panorama of history. Meaningless, meaningless shout the sages of the world order. It is all hopeless says the prince of darkness. “Not so,” says Jesus, the lover of my soul. “You are precious in My sight. […]
On April 16 of this year, I was a guest in a live studio with Holly Bott, a former felon who did eight years of hard time in a Minnesota prison, and her life changed on a dime when she met Jesus in there. Now she tells as many people as she can about her […]