by Neal Eckert | Sep 1, 2018 | God's Love, Heaven
The whisperings of our potential ring throughout nature in the most unlikely of places. I walk my trashcan back after pick-up. Sure wish that emptied can smelled better than it does. Even though the better part of me doesn’t want to look inside, I can’t...
by Neal Eckert | Nov 26, 2017 | God's Love
“If I’ma die, I’ma die givin’ everything that I have. Take a deep breath, I don’t need y’all’s respect. I’m a reject–kid at recess playin’ games with his make-believe friends.” -N.F. What Other People Think of You...
by Neal Eckert | Mar 25, 2017 | God's Love, Heaven
Thanks But No Thanks As a teen, I met a man of around eighty. He was at my high school, the location he’d arrived at to vote. We struck up a brief conversation before my day started and he went home, having done his civic duty. He shared with me about his life and I...
by Neal Eckert | Mar 16, 2017 | Dealing With Pain, God's Love, Uncategorized
Recent movie release, The Shack, takes viewers on a heartbreaking pursuit of healing when Mack’s youngest daughter is abducted and murdered in a remote shack. God helps Mack work through suffocating grief and to find hope despite tragedy. But God doesn’t...
by Neal Eckert | Mar 5, 2017 | God's Love, Spiritual Warfare, The Real Jesus
It feels weird to admit this. Childish even. For years, I believed in a shepherd myth. I thought of shepherds as weak. There’s ample evidence to the contrary but I found it easy to forget. When I heard, “The Lord is my shepherd…,” from the 23rd Psalm, I pictured a...
by Neal Eckert | Feb 19, 2017 | God's Forgiveness, God's Love, Heaven
The Same and Different A man lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer, his emaciated body filled with suffering. He is ghastly. Another man struts through a nearby office building in the prime of life, wealthy and in need of nothing. He is handsome. Could there be a...
