Morning Briefings

Acts #12 in the series Don’t look now, but you’ve been robbed -- in small ways and in big ways. The end result is that we can’t even...

Acts, #11 in the series. In the old church basement where I led a prayer meeting for the homeless, hurting and outcasts of Long Beach--a...

Acts 2.14-41. Acts, #10 in the series. This is the flop to the flip, the yang to the ying and so on. A few days ago we spoke of...

Acts, 9 in the series. by the way, this is a great one to listen to! Click the "Listen to the podcast" link above! It was noisy, there...

Never have I ever . . . seen such division as today. But then, God. Acts, #8. So many incendiary comments bandied about on social media,...

Acts, #7 in the series Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt...

Acts, #6 Betrayal cuts us to our core. When Judas Iscariot made his decision to betray Jesus, it was not just Jesus he betrayed. He...

Acts, number 5 in the series. Suddenly, Jesus’ feet are lifting off the ground and he is going up in the air. . . those standing round...

Southerners seem to do things en masse--like a rocking chair on the porch and a woodcut monogram on the front door. Rather than a ‘D’ on...

how do you know that any of those might be true of you? Acts, #4 Consider Jesus' next act. We are in the marvelous first part of Acts...

Acts, #3 in a series. Think of the things you ‘gotta’ have’ throughout your normal day--coffee, food, clean clothes, something to do,...