Apprentice 2 Jesus

  • Our place in the story

    This week I am reading for Advent 2 and it’s “John the Baptist Week” so to speak. This has led me to this thought: Read more

  • What will be the final yield?

    It’s probably the end of the calendar year that leads me more to reflection. This piece from Karl Rahner has been my reflection this week as I’ve been on the road. I pull it out and read a bit every morning and almost every paragraph grinds my mind to a halt and I have to… Read more

  • Serving God in the ordinary

    We look for the spectacular. God looks for the faithful. Read more

  • The life that counts is so often ordinary

    Sayings I wish we would ban in Christianity… well, there are so many. But at the top currently is this one: “You are a world changer!” You are not. Jesus is the world changer. You serve him. Read more

  • Music that moves me

    There are those moments in my life when I am studying, or praying, or walking, or driving, whatever… and a song comes. The goodness of God overwhelms me. I love those moments. He reaches down and his faithfulness is new all over again. Read more

  • First Sunday of Advent

    Happy New Year! It is a new church year in a good percentage of churches around the world. A reminder that the Kingdom of God isn’t “in step” with this world’s calendar or agenda. It is good news just on that front for me! Read more

  • Happy New Year!

    My journey into Anglicanism began years ago as a Pentecostal pastor learning from Lutheran ministers in my town and attending a Lutheran seminary. I am grateful for the streams of faith that bring me along as I follow Christ. Read more

  • The nuance of trouble, part 3

    I referred to this podcast in my last post, but had not listened to the second half of the episode. Now I’ve listened and know Todd Deatherage, who is interviewed in this podcast, and it is TRULY worth your time. Todd is with the Telos Group and it is phrase I use constantly these days:… Read more

  • Nuanced trouble, part 2

    Israel. Palestine. Democrats. Republicans. Socialism. Capitalism. We get into camps and build our fortifications and then lob our ideological bombs at one another. Read more

  • The nuance of trouble

    What has happened in the American evangelical church visibly over the past 10 years can’t be summed up in the one word we’d all like to use: Trump. As usual, it’s more nuanced than that and this essay by Tim Alberta gives so much of the nuance we need. Read more