There are certain passages in the Bible that make us stop in our tracks. For me, one of them has always been the parable of the dishonest manager in Luke 16. After squandering his master’s possessions and facing dismissal, the manager called in his master’s debtors and began reducing what they owed—fifty here, twenty there….
1. A Choice Reveals What Faith Has Become 2. Remember the Story You Have with Heaven . People often ask: Why would God test a human being this way? To us, a test like this can feel almost like a trap—something placed in our path to make us fall. In fact, that is how many…
The Same House, a Different Relationship Prologue We often imagine that meeting God is something that happens somewhere far beyond the universe. Somewhere distant. Somewhere beyond this life. Somewhere we may reach only after we die. But Jesus spoke of God differently. He spoke of Him as a Father—and invited us into the home where…
Can Sorrow Become Joy? Part One The Fifteenth Floor That Had to Become the First When I was twenty years old, I had to make the fifteenth floor become the first.Of course, I wasn’t trying to change the building.I was trying to change my heart.At twenty, I worked on the fifteenth floor of an apartment…
