Blog

‘I pray that you would know…His incomparably great power toward those who believe’ (Eph. 1: 18, 19). Not a big surprise that sexual...

Leanne Payne used to quote Charles Williams’ line: ‘Hell is an image that knows no more becoming’ in reference to persons who stall in...

My friend and colleague Sy Rogers died a couple days ago of cancer. Loved him. Sy, Alan Medinger, and me stormed Exodus at the same time...

by Marco Casanova “Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.” GK Chesterton Shifting the atmosphere involves...

I became a man through confronting my pastor for partaking of his sheep, e.g. emotionally and sexually manipulating a host of single...

I kid you not. After 40 years of leading Living Waters groups, I just finished the best one ever. These twenty weeks rolled out like a...

‘Each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked.’ (Neh.4:18) Fighting for wholeness is at once a personal and corporate...

We blaze with expectancy in this last week of our Becoming Good News fast. What a gift to burn with you: for mercy, for truth, for the...

Once again, we gathered to pray on the City Hall steps; this time we awaited the outcome of our efforts before the Kansas City Council to...

We met in front of City Hall next to the Lincoln statue, featuring Abe and his son Tad. Fitting. Here we were, Christians of all stripes,...

KC rescheduled both the hearing and vote on the teen therapy ban for next Wednesday the 6th (hearing) and Thursday the 7th (vote). This...

We as a staff opened our ministry year in prayer; Annette received a word about ‘collateral damage’, the fall-out from battle—war’s...

‘For you became sorrowful as God intended…Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow...

Though I love the benefits of Jesus’ cross, I am tempted to hate sharing in that cross with Him. It hurts to bear up under the burden He...

In prayer with our Lenten group, I saw a flag pole waving an image of the Lamb of God; at a closer glance I could see its base had...

I sent out a series of questions to my favorite priests and Rev. Msgr William J King who runs a Living Waters group in his parish...

What had been alien to me—a black-coated mystery, heady and aloof, men in rectories, celibate yet suspect—became engaging and vital...

Chastity has taken a lot of hits lately. Many would deem this ‘successful integration of sexuality within the person’ (#2337) a failure,...

My face is a mess. Overexposed for years in the California sun, it now looks like rugged desert terrain, baked red by heat. I am...

The other night, I dreamt of complicity—a good friend and colleague had been pronounced innocent of murder yet I knew otherwise. She...