Category Archives: God’s love

God’s love

Posted on August 12, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) God’s love is deeply personal.  God’s love is not a concept. It’s not something that is true in a general way for everybody. God’s love is specific and it is … Continue reading →

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Hard to receive

Posted on July 22, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) A real relationship with God is so hard for us to accept because we can do nothing to earn it, and nothing to discredit it. We are not used to … Continue reading →

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Prophet weds and loves practicing prostitute

Posted on July 21, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) “Go and marry a prostitute.” Thus begins the unusual story of Hosea, one of the most surprising prophets to the nation of Israel. It was his prophetic mission to marry … Continue reading →

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Friends forever

Posted on June 24, 2022 by jwfisch

Here is the best news ever. The greatest truths are often the simplest and most profound, and it’s hard to get more profound than this: you and I get to be in this universe with God. Whatever happens, this is … Continue reading →

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Rebel at heart

Posted on February 7, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) They want to be respected They want to make a difference They want to be rebels Now who do you suppose these three qualities represent? Not surprisingly they should represent … Continue reading →

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Where grace meets disgrace

Posted on October 14, 2021 by jwfisch

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. Hebrews 13:12-13 What happened? According to this verse there is something disgraceful … Continue reading →

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A community of love

Posted on September 24, 2021 by jwfisch

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13:35 The over-arching theme of all that we do here at the Catch — indeed for Christians everywhere — is love. It is the … Continue reading →

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Tears for fears

Posted on May 27, 2021 by jwfisch

In April of 2007, I published an article about Francis Schaeffer in Christianity Today magazine. For our younger readers, Francis Schaeffer had a unique ministry to young intellectuals graduating from college in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Many of … Continue reading →

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Our wishful Washington concert

Posted on January 19, 2021 by jwfisch

  What a concert! Yesterday I wrote a Catch about how music might have affected the large political gathering at the Capitol building last week the way music addressed another political crowd gathered near the nation’s capitol back in 1963 … Continue reading →

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‘Jesus Loves You’ (but I think you suck)

Posted on September 17, 2020 by jwfisch

There is a bar in my town that in pre-COVID days was a celebrated biker hangout every Sunday afternoon. There was always a live band playing and rows of gleaming Harleys on either side of the street, with people inspecting … Continue reading →

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