Guest Contributors
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Part 3 – The Gardener who Calls, Clothes & Commissions
He Knows Your Name. Mary is searching for Jesus. She’s grieving, standing outside the tomb, just wanting to find her Lord. She thinks He’s the gardener—and as we’ve already established, she wasn’t wrong.…
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Part 2 – The Gardener Who Seeks
What was lost in the first garden—on a tree—was restored by the tree our Savior hung on. Back to where we’ve always belonged. Back to the garden. Mary thought He was the gardener.…
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Part 1 – Jesus The Gardner
The words you are about to read were the revelation that drew me to my computer — pen to paper — as the Lord began revealing something to me that I couldn’t keep…
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Love Can’t Be Microwaved
My daughter ordered water with lemon at a restaurant. She took a seed from her lemon and had a wild idea: she wanted to plant it and grow a lemon tree. Because when…
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An Audience of One
One of my favorite passages of scripture is 1 Corinthians 4:3-5. It says, “I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge…
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What is The Felt Need? Sharing our Stories in Order to Serve Others
If we are to be Jesus-followers who share our stories in order to serve others, we can learn a lot from the storytellers in our lives. As a full-time writer and editor, I…
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A letter from Jacob
I see you. Not the mask you wear, not the voice you crafted to keep the peace, but the ache beneath the armor. The one who stayed awake long after the world turned…
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The Battlefield of the Mind
The Ease of Self-Criticism It is easier to criticize myself repeatedly for a mistake than to apply grace. But this fails to live in light of the freedom Christ purchased for me with…
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Thoughts Beside a Deathbed
What follows is a journal entry from a few years ago written after I returned home from my first hospital visit where I sat with a family at a deathbed. I had never…
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The Phighten Phils and Serving the Kingdom of God
My favorite baseball team lost in the second round of the MLB playoffs last week after they were expected to go to the World Series. The Philadelphia Phillies captured the baseball world’s attention…
