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Coffee Stains: Bottom Feeders
Once I was watching the weather on the evening news when I got bothered. Our friendly weatherman had just informed us that through four or…
Coffee Stains: Make Up Your Feeble Mind
Rules for Making Good Decisions I teased a friend once, a friend who was having a terrible time deciding what to order at the restaurant,…
Coffee Stains: God Dreams
This week I want to do something different in Coffee Stains. Usually I share with you from my vast wells of wisdom (I hear you giggling and…
Coffee Stains: Plantn’ Corn Wantn’ Peas
It was the strangest thing I ever saw. I didn’t usually wander by there but this day I decided to take a different way and there he…
Coffee Stains: God’s Heart Exposed
David was at that point in life where he was dreaming great dreams for his kids. He had killed his giants and conquered his kingdoms. That…
Coffee Stains: Cowboy Dave
Recently I was invited to a church which was having a special Western theme that particular Sunday morning. ‘You can dress Western, if…
Coffee Stains: Revenge of the Yip Yip Dogs!
A little story that I told on a recent Sunday morning provoked a reaction among some dog owners, and for that I want to redeem myself by…
Coffee Stains: Poor Old Me!
Poor Old Me ! The weather is cold and nasty, The rain””just look at it fall! The sky is gray and leaden. Sad winter has engulfed us…
Coffee Stains: Jump In!
Once, way back when, when I first met that lovely vision who became my wife, I had a dream. ‘Another dream? C’mon David.” I…
Coffee Stains: Lady in the forest
The young man spotted her just up ahead on a forest trail that veered off to his right. He ran towards her slowing as he approached. Oh, she…
Coffee Stains: My Name in Lights
My high school football career nearly reached its zenith my senior year when I got my name in the local paper two weeks in a row””each…
Coffee Stains: How to Hurt Someone
We pray for power. Maybe we ought to pray for compassion first because compassion paves the way for miracles ____________________ I had one…
Coffee Stains: The Worst Singers
Once I started a church here in Europe and right from the start the second-worst female singer in the world joined us. The worst followed…
Coffee Stains: The Three Clocks
I stayed in an apartment this past weekend that had three clocks. The one in the bedroom proudly announced that the time was 12:50. The one…
Coffee Stains: Public Opinion
“I could care less what they think!” You ever said that? You were probably lying weren‘t you? It seems most of us care much more…
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Facing A Debilitating Illness
Luke 13:10-17 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for…
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God is Not Tired of You
I get it. Living in a world like ours drains you. It’s not just the break-neck speed we move at these days or the to-do lists that seem to…
Why I Love Other People’s Prayers
Sure… prayer is, for the most part, a personal thing. It is also a corporate, human-divine exchange in places like churches and other…
Dark Safety
I can still picture it clearly, though I was probably about five-years-old at the time. Standing on the back porch between my parents, I…
New Motherhood Lessons from Ancient Mommas
Motherhood, it seems, is one long series of lessons held in the often chaotic classroom of daily living. Children are not the only learners…
Was it cruel for Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away?
In Genesis 21:14, Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away into the desert. Yet Abraham was not sending them to die of thirst there. He gave…
Getting too comfortable in Egypt?
Exodus opens where Genesis leaves off: Jacob and his family settled in Egypt (Exod 1:1-5), and Joseph and his generation died (1:6).…
Are Spiritual Gifts for Today?
Paul declares that we are the body of Christ with many members (Rom 12:4-5; 1 Cor 12:12, 20). He then elaborates on some of the varied gifts…
Beating a tyrant at his own game
The unscrupulous Pharaoh, determining to act shrewdly (NRSV, ESV) with God’s people, planned to kill their infants through the Hebrews’ own…
Moses as a third-culture kid
Did Moses know that he was a Hebrew? Contrary to some of the movies we see (including my beloved Prince of Egypt!), he presumably did. In…
The Banquets of Two Kingdoms
Matthew’s narratives often concretely illustrate his teachings elsewhere. In Matthew 14:1-12, Herod Antipas executes John the Baptist. In so…
The Hebrews were sinners too
In Exod 2:11-12, Moses killed an Egyptian who was striking one of Moses’s own people. He meant to act for justice. Unfortunately, however,…
Moses as a refugee
Moses may have thought that killing an Egyptian oppressor was an act of justice, but the Egyptian overlords have different ideas. Once word…
Settling in a new land
When I travel to speak in various parts of the world, my hosts show me great hospitality. I miss my wife and kids, but otherwise life is…
Jesus, the Living Word
Modern writers have proposed many valuable aspects of background for the “Word,” but probably the most obvious is what the “Word” was in the…
God has not forgotten them
When our lives become more comfortable, it’s easy to forget the hardship faced by others, whether through persecution, hunger, injustice or…