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The place of Lent
We will actually have an Ash Wednesday worship at our Pentecostal church tonight and open up this season of Lent. There are those who don’t understand this season and say, “I live in the resurrection, not death.” I, too, live in resurrection power. But if every day was Easter… then no day is Easter. My theme for Lent this year…
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The gift of his presence
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:32, NIV) The beauty of coming away in solitude is the gift of Christ himself.
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Sacred Idleness
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald
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The freedom of solitude
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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The beauty of solitude
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. -C.S. Lewis, Weight of Glory
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Love that will not let us go
I am preaching on Jacob this morning in a series called “Anchored in God.” The anchor I have observed in the life of Jacob is we see a love that will not let us go. We need to understand the pursuit of a holy God. It’s not the holy pursuit of God on our part I think about when it comes to…
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The place of silence
I am headed out on Monday to three days of silence. It is a rhythm I work to put into my life every year now. Henri Nouwen helps explain why: “Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Using online Bible tools
One of my favorite “go-to” sites for quickly accessing translations is BibleGateway. They also have apps for your smartphone. I like it on my computer because when I need a quick reference to view a verse in several different translations, this site is the easiest for me. I can type in the reference and go to it, then add parallel…
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Real persecution actually exists
It is my hope that the following statement offends just about everyone who regularly reads my blog, because I have something BEYOND that to which we need our attention drawn: For evangelical Christians and gay rights folks in America, here is the stark truth: none of us know persecution. The current broohaha over the Arizona bill concerning businesses and serving gays…
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Thomas Jefferson and OPEN Education
I am revisiting an old documentary on Thomas Jefferson and was reminded of his design for the University of Virginia. He didn’t want any matriculation or granted degrees. He believed people should come and learn. They would leave when they felt they had an education. Leave it to an administrator to goof that up.
