Bill Perkins

We’re taught to travel fast and light. On the freeway we drive in the fast lane. If we want something we’re told to, “Go for it!” Immediate gratification often drives our life. We expect pain to vanish fast and success to arrive faster. Such expectations align with what we see on TV and the Internet. […]

Webster tells us an opportunity is a “favorable juncture of circumstances.” A moment when the elements for progress merge. The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare described such moments: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads to fortune; Omitted, all the voyages of their life Are bound in […]

I learned and believed, and still believe, Jesus was baptized to identify with the ministry of John the Baptist. John came to prepare the nation of Israel for the arrival of their King. Before a king visited roads had to be cleared, smoothed and cleaned. The Baptist challenged people to prepare for the King by […]

Jesus said we are sheep before wolves–vulnerable victors. We won’t win by dominating. Or protecting self-interest. In the domain of The King, we win when we lose. In Matthew 10:39 Jesus said, “Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.” Our Lord turned the nursery […]

While reflecting on the subject of a blinding bias, the Holy Spirit drew me to the story of two sisters, Martha and Mary, who sent a message to Jesus informing him their brother, Lazarus, was sick (John 11:3). Like the twelve disciples, and us, the sisters viewed physical death as irreversible. This because they knew […]