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I need the Church
I need the Church. While I struggle with the conservative American church expressions, I still love the Body of Christ and the holy catholic Church, as I profess every week in worship. This podcast is very special and worth your time. It’s James Bryan Smith remembering his friend Rich Mullins 25 years after Mullins’s death. Rich Mullins was a voice…
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Lord, let me see again
Luke 18:35-43 It is my deep prayer that the American church will one day cry out again for mercy from the Lord Jesus Christ. To repent of their desire for power, repent of their greed, and call out on God’s mercy for the way they were complicit in racism and mistreatment of immigrants.
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From George Floyd to white comfort
It’s been a little over three years since the murder of George Floyd. During COVID we came face to face with lynching and racism and couldn’t just pass on by because we were all stuck inside. So, what did we do? We turned phrases we didn’t understand (as White people) like “critical race theory” and “woke” into pejorative turns so…
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Arranging my life
While we lost a giant of the faith in Tim Keller just a few weeks ago, the giant I’ve missed is Dallas Willard. Another quote from him that settles my heart:
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Our love affair with nostalgia
“Nostalgia is rarely antiquarian, a mere interest in history qua history. It is more commonly a sentimental pining for “the way it was.” Such nostalgia is always a form of arrested development. For example, there are sorts of nostalgia that are not-so-subtle longings for adolescence and thus resent adulthood. Many forms of collective nostalgia demonize the present while luxuriating in…
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Generosity of life
Tish Harrison Warren gives a beautiful picture of Tim Keller in his generosity. This was the life he lived consistently.
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Pentecost Sunday
Almighty God, on this day, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, you revealed the way of eternal life to every race and nation: Pour out this gift anew, that by the preaching of the Gospel your salvation may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity…
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The heartache and beauty of the last few years
There are few books I take the time to re-read. My most re-read book is probably Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain. Spiritual memoirs that truly speak to the soul are truly rare. There may be two more I’d add. (I have them on Audible read by the authors so I’d say to “re-listen”.)
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Beth Moore’s memoir
Philip Yancey’s memoir, Where the Light Fell, and this one by Beth Moore will be deeply meaningful along with Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain, will be treasures to visit often.
