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“The next day the huge crowd that had arrived for the Feast heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem. They broke off palm branches and went out to meet him. And they cheered: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in God’s name! Yes! The King of Israel!…The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb, raising him from the dead, was there giving eyewitness accounts. It was because they had spread the word of this latest God-sign that the crowd swelled to a welcoming parade. The Pharisees ...

Something from nothing. That is the way He began our story and it is the way of unfolding ever since. It’s what we can’t extract, pin-point, or make in a test tube. It’s elusive, invisible, and yet — it’s everything. It’s life. It’s that moment of untenable mystery-when egg becomes embryo, when seed becomes sprout, when what wasn’t suddenly is.

This beginning, it comes from Him — all God-spoken, God-breathed. The source of being itself, it is Him. Elohim, God the Creator and the judge ...

I have a confession to make.

I have pumpkins on my front porch. Five, to be precise.

From, you know…

September.

Does it make things better that I bought them in late September?

Yeah, I didn’t think so. But here’s the thing. They were front and center through Thanksgiving…and when I was putting Christmas decorations on the front porch, I was tired and had a three-year old assistant ...

Last Christmas Eve, I opened a gift from my sister and brother-in-law. I think my reaction was more than they’d bargained for: when I saw the necklace with all three of my children’s names engraved into it, I immediately burst into tears.

As my emotional tendencies are somewhat of a family joke already, I spent the rest of the holiday receiving various items (plastic cups, scrap paper, etc.) with different names written in Sharpie on their ...

I recently read a book by Lauren F. Winner called Mudhouse Sabbath. Lauren converted from Judaism to Christianity and this wonderful little book is about the traditions from Judaism that she believes would enrichen the Christian faith in tangible, day-to-day ways. What she said about the Sabbath caught my attention in a big way…

“I remember that, for Jews, the Sabbath shapes all the rhythms of calendar and time; the entire week points toward Shabbat. The rabbis, who are always interested ...