Author Archives: Joe Chambers

I love new things.  I have a new Surface RT, a Samsung Galaxy 4, a new ULA backpack, new Hoka One trail running shoes, a new Neo Air sleeping pad, a new Big Agnes ultra lite tent.  I buy new … Continue reading →

…when he came to himself…  Luke 15:17 It is good to be between a ruined house of bondage and a holy promised land.  ~Leonard Cohen Jesus tells a story about a father with two sons.  One stays home on the family … Continue reading →

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.~Margret Craven I see him, thin and pale at the front of the boat, jaw set, chin high, … Continue reading →

My father could hear a little animal step, Or a moth in the dark against the screen, And every far sound called the listening out Into places where the rest of us had never been.         ~William … Continue reading →

All of life is repentance. ~ Martin Luther We all have strategies for living. We all have certain activities, certain accomplishments that we are betting on to pay off in the end. Whether we have formally articulated them or not, … Continue reading →

For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord…  Isaiah 30:17 The following is a restoration story shared in our Church on a recent Sunday morning. I arrived at prison and found a group … Continue reading →

“To forgive oneself is like trying to sit in one’s own lap” ~Fredrick Buechner You know the story of King David, how after being a shepherd boy, he killed the giant Goliath which made him a national hero, Samuel came … Continue reading →

It is so easy to get sad.  Just pay attention to what mankind is doing in and to the world. From the anemic economy to the chemical weapons in Syria, to the toddler tantrum in Washington, to the gray skies … Continue reading →

Then the (dragon) said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God…”  Genesis 3:4-5 (NKJV) In a street … Continue reading →