The vastness of a black night sky studded with heavenly lights is one of the strongest images in the Christmas story . . . shepherds watching their flocks by night, the glory of angelic hosts momentarily lighting the canopy of darkness, magi coming from a...
The keen awareness that his time was short spread like pale light filling the dome of Jesus’ conscious mind. No decisions remained; everything was in order, and nothing was catching him by surprise. He was prepared. He understood what God was working for. I go to...
In the divine dialogue we don’t so much hear what God is saying -- as we see it. We see the replication of patterns all pointing to the same message and we get it. This demands an openness to the supernatural, believing the extraordinary possibility...
When Linda prays aloud, the air stills and light from heaven spills into those who listen. She is humble, shy, adorable and earthy. She loves the land and her garden, seeing God in every parable of seed and flower. She grows outrageous amounts of lilacs,...
Mount Sinai represents God’s most overwhelming display of His presence to the Jewish people, an experience like no other, making His reality clear and immediate. It was a moment when emunah suffused their beings [1] . . . faith . . . conviction of truth...
For months I’ve been asking God how we receive His power into our circumstances. In response He’s been leading me to Scriptures that have taken me deep into a landscape I’ve never seen before. This is how the divine dialogue unfolds between the Lord and...
The kingdom of God is not advanced by our being the kindest person we can be, professing our faith in Jesus, and giving credit for our successes to Him. The kingdom advances as God makes His presence an indisputable reality in the lives of those...
The greatest threat to our ability to walk with God -- to be alive to Him -- does not come from without, but from within. It is our tragic propensity to think wrongly about God, harboring false beliefs that erode our ability to relate to...
A divine dialogue links the rise and fall of nations as surely as it threads the ups and downs of our lives. Sometimes its scale is so large that you can only understand what God is saying against the backdrop of centuries. Other times, its...
Our religious arguments about God are not with each other, but with God Himself. We think we are searching for Him, when He is actually seeking us -- sending us words, using the stuff of our life to draw us into dialogue with Himself . . . stirring us to confirm,...