Spiritual hunger – Apprentice 2 Jesus

Soul journey

There are quotes and opening lines of books or articles that take my breath away. This one from Richard Foster did it for me this week: Oh, let me tell you how much God desires our presence. How much God longs to hear from us. How much God yearns to communicate with us. At theContinue reading “Soul journey”

The places where I can be found “undone”

It sometimes come across as “too spiritual” or “spiritually cheesy” or other platitudes to say say, “This sounds a bit fake and overdone.” When people see things like, “I read this passage (or heard this song, or read this book), and Jesus wrecked me.”

Transfiguration Sunday

Exodus 24:12-19Psalm 99Philippians 3:7-14Matthew 17:1-9 The power of these passages set up against the approach of Ash Wednesday and Lent is incredible. The more I walk in the Anglican tradition and the flow of the Church calendar, the more I am in awe of the journey with Christ.

The wrestling

I have come to a place in my daily reading where the Lord has me once again tapping the brakes and saying, “Slow down. Stay here. I have something to say.” So many times I cherish these moments. These soft words. This time, I know I need it because one of the passages is JacobContinue reading “The wrestling”

To be a saint

We carry too much false humility in our lives. Or, if we truly wish to “achieve” we aim high at material goals or career ideals. But in our spiritual lives? We shroud ourselves in false humility or we don’t understand the true human potential and think we just want to survive this life and hopeContinue reading “To be a saint”

I’m always left with… WOW

2 Peter 1:2-11 is an all-time favorite passage. It is majestic. It is challenging. It is a high calling. And… it is attainable. All we need to walk in this majestic calling has already been given.

We need to see a HOLY vision

“All of us, if we only knew it, are on a hunt for the holy, for a life that cannot be reduced to the way we look or what we do or what others think of us.” — The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way by Eugene H. PetersonContinue reading “We need to see a HOLY vision”

We are unaware

I am working on a message to be given July 4 and the text I am working on is in Ezekiel 2. I have backed up into chapter 1 for context and found myself bogged down in weird visions and impossible interpretations. Bible study and sermon prep is fun.

Citizenship

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ… (Phil. 3:20) I am here on a passport and visa. This world is not ‘home.’ I represent a place I’ve never been yet the reality of that place dwells in me.

All that matters

Notes from Philippians 3 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain ChristContinue reading “All that matters”