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Life goal
My hardest thing in life: to live in amazement. This is a “last third living” goal for me!
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The ease of Tim Keller
David Brooks described Tim Keller as a recliner. It’s perfect. Tim Keller was at ease with the gospel and the world around him. Christ had apprehended him and that joy carried him through the hardest of places.
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Our preference for chaos and division
“And the fruit of righteousness I shown in peace by those who make peace.” (James 3:18) What I reflect on in our current day is how we love controversy, discord, disruption, chaos, pride, and so much more. We don’t mind creating chaos. We have come to a place as conservative American Christians where we like our power and we will…
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Hey, Dad, it’s been a year
Hey, Dad. It’s been a year. This past week I’ve revisited every day of that week a year ago in my mind. I close my eyes and see the road driving to St. Louis or see the ICU when I first walked in to see you. I remember conversations. I remember looks we had when things were so hard and…
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Just wanting to see Jesus
An update on Tim Keller: Health Update: Today, Dad is being discharged from the hospital to receive hospice care at home. Over the past few days, he has asked us to pray with him often. He expressed many times through prayer his desire to go home to be with Jesus. His family is very sad because we all wanted more…
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Taking the way of power
Recently I heard a phrase: “The religious right has become the post-Christian right.” This is something that is possible beyond politics in America. James gives this warning:
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The power of Pentecost
We are in Eastertide season and also the 50 days leading to the Day of Pentecost. I am in a men’s Bible study that is currently going through 1 Corinthians and will then go through a book about spiritual gifts in the local church… as Anglicans. I love what the Spirit does in every corner of the Church world!
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Unspooling bad eschatology
I grew up in the age of “The Late Great Planet Earth” and “A Thief in the Night.” Two decades later, it was the “Left Behind” series. In college I began to work through my faith and theology and was in my early 20s when I worked to unspool all the bad theology surrounding “the rapture.” Even after that, I…
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The challenge of waves
If there is anything that describes the time in which we currently live it’s an acceleration of waves. This is a picture I can grasp in my mind. Waves of change. Waves that get bigger and bigger and crash to the shore with more frequency. We can be caught off balance. We can be swept away just by the thought…
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Post-Christian America
It was in the late 1980s when I read some of Charles Colson’s books on the turning of American “spirituality” into what he called (along with others) “post-Christian” America. What I appreciated about Colson at the time was I didn’t get a sense of hand ringing, but a path to how we shall live as believers in that environment.
