Kim Denyes

The invitation today is to consider what happens when you extent love to yourself.   God’s great commandment for the past 5,000 years remains unchanged:  You must love your neighbor in…

God uses dirt in some outlandish ways.  Really.  For example, from the very first chapters of the Bible, God uses dirt to creates Adam.  Then, Adam and Eve’s first home…

In Philip Yancey’s book, titled What’s so Amazing about Grace? the reader is invited into an expanded understanding of God and forgiveness. If you were raised in any kind of…

Scaffolding is used during a building construction project.  It is an external and temporary structure used to support the work crew, their materials and tools, and even the edifice that…

A recent search on the internet reinforced my concern for Christians who live with or journey in and out of depression. Over and over, the experts said that more prayer…

Connection Eclipses Suffering As a spiritual director, people share with me how they are suffering and have suffered.  Suffering seems like a promise of living fully.  In the book of…

Practice:  I Love You If you are unfamiliar with Dr. James Finley, you are in for such kindness around God and God’s love for you.   Dr. Finley’s words and teachings…

Practice:  I KNOW In a small group of believers, two women wept together as a third member shared a stunning insight around Jesus words to his students, when they asked…

Practice Release You may be able to quote Psalms 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.”  Robert Alter offers a wonderful translation of the first two words of…

Practice a Spiritual Practice Recently someone asked me, “What do you mean by spiritual practice?” Spiritual practice is a bit like practicing the piano, practicing hitting a baseball, or even…