Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
There’s an expression that is...
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
There’s an expression that is...
The child-heart wants to know, “Will there be animals in heaven?” The calloused heart dismisses this as theologically unworthy. Friend, the whole debate ends when you realize that heaven comes to earth. How could your creative God renew...
READ MORECommit yourself in love, in justice! Wait for your God, and don’t give up on him—ever! (Hosea 12:6 The Message)
Without naming evil for what it is, and without a day of reckoning, there can be no justice. (This is...
Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of...
READ MORE“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:10
You have been looking for the kingdom all your life. When you were a child, you searched for it in ponds and cornfields, attics and...
READ MORE“My grace is sufficient for you.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 nasb
There is only the kingdom, friend. Everything else will slip through your fingers, no matter how strong your grasp. Why do you fight this hope? You nod in...
READ MOREHeroic desires are embedded in the center of the masculine soul. Yet there is also something corrosive at work. Some drive to answer a searing question for which we have no words. Some compulsive need to push and strive that lures us so often to...
READ MOREWhat do you hope people will say at your eulogy?
"Growing up, my dad was my hero. He was strong yet playful. His courage taught me how to stand up for those in need."
"My father was always dreaming about our...
Here’s something I think most people have never seen before. This moment takes place on Easter morning. Jesus of Nazareth has been systematically tortured and then hung by his hands and feet from timbers. He died, and his body quickly laid in a...
READ MOREReading the Gospels without knowing the personalty of Jesus is like watching television with the sound turned off. The effect is a dry, two-dimensional person saying strange, undecipherable things. But when we discover his true character - this...
READ MOREWild at Heart is a ministry of hope. One of the ways we regularly offer that hope is through weekly podcast conversations where John, Stasi and the team discuss our hopes, questions, struggles, and breakthroughs with God.
For...
READ MOREWhy do we pray, “in Jesus’ name”?
The phrase gets tacked onto the end of many prayers, but I think it has about as much meaning to us as “amen.” Amen does not mean, “That’s it . . . I’m done now,” the little period at the...
READ MOREG.K. Chesterton thought that everybody ought to get drunk once a year because if that didn’t do you good, the repentance in the morning would. There’s nothing like waking up to what you’ve done, whether it’s too much to drink or eat, or letting...
READ MOREMy gender seems to need little encouragement. It comes naturally, like our innate love of maps. In 1260 Marco Polo headed off to find China, and in 1967, when I was seven, I tried to dig a hole straight through from our backyard with my friend...
READ MOREIt can feel impossible during the Christmas season to maintain the rhythms that bring us life. To draw us back to God, John and Craig offer four conversations - one for each week of Advent - to help you awaken to, remember, and anticipate the...
READ MOREEvery woman is haunted by Eve in the core of her being. She knows, if only when she passes a mirror, that she is not what she was meant to be. We are more keenly aware of our own shortcomings than anyone else. Remembering the glory that was once...
READ MORETo the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
To...
READ MOREGod gave Eve a beautiful form and a beautiful spirit. She expresses beauty in both. Better, she expresses beauty simply in who she is. Like God, it is her essence.
Stasi and I just spent a weekend together in Santa Fe, New...
READ MOREWhen God creates Eve, he calls her an ezer kenegdo. "It is not good for the man to be alone, I shall make him a [ezer kenegdo]" (Gen. 2:18 Alter). This phrase is notoriously difficult to translate. The various attempts we...
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