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Two years ago I was confronted with the realization that I had been reading John 15 from a fundamentally flawed perspective.  Take a moment and read the first nine verses, and count the number of times the words ‘abide/remain’ and ‘fruit’ are used.  In most versions each are mentioned at...

I was sitting on the beach during a family vacation in Belize, taking in the beauty of the Caribbean as it splashed its way onto the sandy shore. Children were playing along the shoreline, running to stay ahead of the waves as if chased by a ferocious beast. Some of...

For the past four years I have been writing and speaking about the steward leader.  I believe it is the most transformational understanding of leadership I have ever encountered.  Over the next several weeks I will share with you nine disciplines that mark the life of a steward leader.  I...

Our Position in the Presence of God – Mathew 27:46 Our third meditation on this text considers the emphasis, “why have you forsaken me?”  If we are honest, this is the version with which we most closely identify.  It is not just the forsakenness, or the fact that it is happening...

The Character of God – Mathew 27:46 We are looking at the different interpretations of this text that come from the way the key words are emphasized.  In the first devotion we looked at, “why have you forsaken me?” and we contemplated the purposes of God.  Here we will look at,...

The Purpose of God – Mathew 27:46, “Why have you forsaken me?” Have you ever played the game where you take a simple sentence and see how the meaning changes when you change the emphasis?  Start with, “Why did you eat that apple?”  Now read it as, “Why did you eat...

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book...

The comment caught me completely off-guard.  I was proudly showing a colleague my new truck; a sleek black Dodge Ram 2500 long bed with a V8 Hemi engine that my kids named Darth Vader.  Instead of the expected words of admiration, however, this friend just retorted, “You are really supporting...