[Here's an oldie-goldie from my still-extant but no longer updated blog exploring Christian feminism, "Are Men Really Human?"] Today, a dear friend unintentionally brought me face to face with my own anger. I had sent her links to an article blasting her ministry as unbiblical and “liberal.” Indignant, I was [...]

In Glenn’s 2013 New Year’s addition to the collection of New Year’s Sunday, he addresses seeking first the Kingdom of God and offers three questions we might ask ourselves in light of that command from Scripture.

Tom’s New Year’s message, one of those offered annually by JPUSA pastors each New Year’s Sunday, discusses peace vs. strife.

I think a lot about the hardness of human hearts. I feel oppressed, depressed, beaten down by the many examples of “man’s inhumanity to man.” I look in the mirror and see someone looking back at me whom I at times do not know. That face doesn’t tell me anything [...]

Part One of our Jesus People USA Advent video series… Tammy Perlmutter recites her poem on “Hope.”  

JPUSA Sermon November 18, 2012 Dave Coleman MP3 (to play or download): The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, sing praise to The Lord, to him who rides the ancient skies above, who thunders with mighty voice. Proclaim the power of God, whose [...]

As part of my continuing series reflecting on obedience, especially obedience where God and I are concerned, I’ve decided to borrow from dear friend and mentor Dawn Mortimer. Her words, shared as a short homily in the midst of seven or eight JPUSA pastors’ homilies at the beginning of this [...]

As with the previous portions of this series on obedience or whatever one might choose to call it, what follows is not meant to be a universal teaching. Far, far from it. Take what is useful; toss the rest. “It is so hard to believe because it is so hard [...]

For part one of these somewhat meandering reflections on obedience, Fear Comes First ; part two, Whispers. More (as I write ‘em) articles in this series, as well as other Devotionals. Love is a terrible thing, especially when that love is God’s Love. God’s Love reveals to us that we [...]

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination [...]