Inside Out People

I get to have conversations about God a lot in my life.  When I meet people, they usually find out that I am a pastor, and they either totally avoid the subject of God or they pour out their questions they have always wanted to ask.  Many times I am as deeply affected by the conversations as the other person is, and some of those conversations stick in my mind.  There is one of those conversations from at least 3 years ago that hangs out in my memory and won’t go away.  As I was reading John 17.6-8 my mind(…)

I sit here in Costa Rica this morning, sent by Calvary Church to check out and make preparations for a summer mission project that we will be leading in August. It is very beautiful and the birds singing out their worship to their creator is inspiring. This is only a short trip, for on Wednesday I return to Calvary.

I want to focus our attention on a little bit longer journey that each of us are on. To do this I turn to one of the most intimate passages in Scripture. (…)