Called!
It is a little word, in many ways, and unassuming. Yet it is large enough to convey our deepest Christian identity — and our mandate as Christians in the world. “Kaleo,” in New Testament Greek. “Called.” “In the use of … (read more)
TIP Editorial
Children at Risk
“Let the little children come to me,” Jesus said. “For it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs” (Matthew 19:13-15). But the kingdom of heaven has missed a few of the little ones recently, it seems. … (read more)
Don’t Just Stand There …
I can picture the disciples even now. How earnest (and pathetic) they must have appeared, on that first Ascension Day! Jesus was gone. And there they stood, drop-jawed, staring away after him. Motionless. As if suddenly overcome by some kind … (read more)
We are Convinced!
Let me give you a word for Holy Week. “Krinantas.” You will find the word in one of my favorite Holy Week verses, 2 Corinthians 5:14. There are a series of wonderful Holy Week words in this little verse. We … (read more)
The Bother With Blood…
Every Wednesday morning we gather in our Minneapolis offices around a cup of coffee, a moment of prayer, and an encounter with the Word of God. For a few weeks, now, we have been reading Paul’s wonderful epistle to the … (read more)
Write That big!
For many years, I have been impressed with a little verse from the second chapter of Habakkuk. It is a verse that the Apostle Paul picked up many years later, in his Epistle to the Romans (1:17). It is a … (read more)
The Day After Christmas
I write to you on Saturday, November 25, 2006 — the day after “Black Friday,” the busiest shopping day of the year. Yesterday, more than 70 million Americans went to the mall. Some outlets were open at midnight to accommodate … (read more)
A Day of Small Things
It was, it seemed, “a day of small things” (Zechariah 4:10). Have you ever had days like that? The setting was big enough – enormous, in fact. God himself was writing a Story – the broad and beautiful story of … (read more)
The “North Country!”
God is at work! He is writing a wonderful story throughout the pages of human history – a story full of love and mission, high adventure and great daring. It is a story that involves you. “You can learn something … (read more)
Hidden Among the Myrtle Trees
The prophet Zechariah appears on the scene in the year 519 before Christ, approximately – and in the nick of time. Twenty years earlier, the people of Israel had returned from a long captivity in Babylon, full of vision, enthusiasm … (read more)