We have made it to Colorado, though the trip out was not easy. We had some mechanical issues and severe weather to navigate, but we arrived on time and spent the first couple of days getting our issues resolved. We are now set up alongside a beautiful creek in Golden, CO, with a walking path along it that stretches out in both directions. And Mandy enjoys the creek every day.
Next week, we will head north with stops for conversations and sightseeing in Rapid City, SD, Sheridan, WY, Bozeman, MT, Kalispell, MT, and hopefully in Calgary, AB. Then, we’ll work our way homeward through Washington and Oregon. If you want to join us somewhere, let me know.
I am writing this to let you know that my newest book, It’s Time: Letters to the Bride of Christ at the End of the Age, is finally complete and ready for purchase. You can order it in paperback ($10.99) or e-book ($8.99). If you purchased the Kindle version for Part 1, the new version with Part 2 will be added to your file the next time you update it. It may already be there.
This book has been a labor of love over the past three years. When God first put it on my heart to write it, I knew this would be a very different book for me. It would be like living loved on steroids, through the darkest challenges life can throw at us. What I didn’t know at the outset was how my life would be put through the wringer in so many different ways as I wrote it. Through it all, I have discovered a depth of trust in his love and rest in his work that has rewritten the script of my life in a wonderful way.
Everything Jesus has taught me in the last five years is in this book, how the life of Jesus and his goodness can shine through us, regardless of whatever darkness we face. That’s what Creation yearns for and what the world needs to see—a people who have found their Life in him, and nothing that happens in this world can destroy it.
Now, I want to share all of that with you.
It’s Time is about God revealing himself in his sons and daughters as the end of days unfolds. I’m not a date-setter, but I will be surprised if this world makes it another decade before Jesus returns. Whether this is the end or not, I cannot say with any degree of certainty. I see signs that make me wonder, and the possibility delights my heart. If this is not the beginning of the end, then when it does come, it will look a lot like this.
The time of Jesus’s coming may be at hand; the time for letting his love be revealed through us definitely is.
Here is an excerpt from the last chapter:
These pages carry a gentle invitation to draw into the deep places where our love and trust in him aren’t based on us getting what we want, but the simple and profound magnificence of his presence in us. This is how Jesus prepares us for whatever may come. Too many followers of Jesus are playing the world’s games, thinking they are following Jesus. They have been deluded by the lie that the kingdom comes by coercion. Their wounded hearts look to lash out at their perceived enemies. Their only hope is to be loved back into life, where the tactics of darkness hold no sway.
“Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.” (Revelation 22:20)
That phrase makes my heart soar in a way it hasn’t before. I’m convinced we live in the moments before the dawn. Certainly, darkness seems to rule everywhere we look, but for those with eyes to see, the skies have already begun to brighten ever-so- slightly on the eastern horizon.
And, here is the Table of Contents
- It’s Time
- Is This Where It Ends?
- This Scares Me to Death
- Who Are You to Write Such Things?
- The Tender Call
- Following the Lamb
- The Power of Tenderness
- Love What Is True
- Eyes to See, Ears to Hear
- Only One Thing Matters
- Love, Rest, and Play
- Rise and Shine
- Riding the Wind
- By Every Word
- The God-Shaped Life, Part 1
- The God-Shaped Life, Part 2
- Embracing God in Our Pain
- Holding God’s Pain
- Children of the Day
- Stand By
- And Then the End Shall Come
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It’s Time: Letters to the Bride of Christ at the End of the Age
221 pages, paperback ($10.99) or e-book ($8.99)
