Books

Christ Is Coming Today: 

 Many Christian traditions around the world take four weeks every year to remember and celebrate a season called Advent. The literal components of the word advent mean “come to”. We recognize our individual and collective need for the presence of God to come to us and set right what is wrong. Advent is about watching, waiting, and working for a better world. We trust that world will come.

The scriptures associated with Advent are broken into three four-week groups and rotated through every three years. Over 31 days, we meditate on the meaning of Advent using scriptures from all three groups as our prompt. After each reflection, we pray our Advent Prayer

It's Good to Believe: 

 Curated from the "60 Seconds of Hope" podcast, "It's Good to Believe: Meditations in Faith, Hope, Love, Liberation and Freedom" reflects on every aspect of what it means to live in faith, hope, and love while fighting for liberation, freedom, and wellbeing. It uses a series of clear, concise, and compelling meditations that take less than 60 seconds when read aloud.

In looking at the world, I cannot offer you empirical proof that good overcomes evil and that love overcomes hate. Nor can we be certain that the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice as MLK declared...

(Nevertheless) let us believe in the power of love and place our hope in that alone. We can’t be certain, but it is so good to believe. 

366 Days of Love: 

Do you want to experience more love in your life? Do you want to be a more loving person? Do you want to be a part of creating a more loving world?

God is love, and the whole cosmos lives and moves in has its being in the reality of God's love. Centered in the Christian tradition, this daily devotional uses quotes about from the scriptures as well as all the world's major faith traditions and even an atheist or two to guide and provoke our reflections on what love is and how to live in it. The quotes are followed by a short reflective prayer and three simple questions for personal reflection.

After 366 days, the reader will find that they have become more rooted and grounded in love by taking a few minutes each day with this devotional to focus on love.

Esau's Blessing

Has the future you expected been lost or stolen? Have you been betrayed or exploited? Have your own poor decisions and bad choices left you in a bad spot?  In "Esau's Blessing" we take a brief look at the biblical story of Esau in order to discover seven steps for building a new life when the life we needed, wanted, deserved, and expected has been taken away or lost, and is no longer available. Self help,  christian inspiration, self improvement and motivation.  Paperback and Kindle versions available.

No Mo' Broke: 

Save More. Give More. Live More! 

At last, a personal finance book for those of us who hate personal finance books. What this book is not, long, dry and dull. What this book does is to provide the seven key concepts to financial success from a Christian perspective, humorously illustrated and concisely explained. Paperback and Kindle versions available.

The purpose of these reflections is to recover the deeper meaning of what it means to follow Jesus. We also seek to better understand the content of the good news that Jesus proclaimed. We are primarily focused on what it means to live and experience the Kingdom of God as Jesus described it. Somewhere along the line, Christianity as we know it has gotten side-tracked by creeds and confessions and the like. What Jesus intended as a way of life for us to live together individually and collectively has instead become something Jesus never intended: a religion. This series of reflections is, in large part, is an extended response to questions I’ve received from people I’ve encountered throughout my now quarter century of licensed and ordained ministry. Our goal is to provide clarity and strip away everything that obscures the message and vision of Jesus in order to recover the revolutionary message of good news that once upended the ancient world.

 Take Ye Eat

"... Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."

Matthew 4:4

It was a privilege to help my mother publish her first book, Take Ye Eat.  In her words, she wrote Take Ye Eat "to demonstrate the many glorious benefits that await those willing to take God at his word." Paperback and Kindle versions available.