By David Faust Do you ever experience déjà vu—the eerie feeling that you have seen or experienced something before? Here’s a provocative idea: Have you ever experienced vuja de? That’s the ability to look at something familiar as though you have never seen it before. In his book Seize the Vuja De (Missio Nexus, […]
By David Faust I once had a frightening dream in which I was driving a car through a crowded street. In my dream it was late at night, but the car’s lights wouldn’t work. I was barreling along at high speed through the darkness, trying to maintain control, but I couldn’t see where I […]
By David Faust We know heroism when we see it. We try to capture it with words like courage, bravery, pluck, gallantry, and daring. But no dictionary can fully describe the admiration we feel for the firefighter who races into a burning building to rescue a child or the nurse who devotes her life […]
By David Faust Biblical authors came from many different walks of life. Moses and David were shepherds. Daniel was a government official. Matthew was a tax collector. Peter and John were fishermen. Paul was a tentmaker. Two books of the New Testament (the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts) were written by […]
By David Faust In the first century, a cross usually drew a crowd. Onlookers gathered to stare and scoff. Some wept for the victim. Others were drawn by the same morbid curiosity that makes passersby gawk at a car accident or a tornado-ravaged town. A mob assembled on the night of Jesus’ trial and […]
