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The affections of Christ
We approach Lent and that is always a reflective time for me. Yet, as we draw in, I am struck by a hunger that keeps calling me… and I keep ignoring.
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Where the Kingdom is found
The Gospel reading this past Sunday was Luke 6:17-26. It’s a place in Jesus’ teaching where you are to be warned: “Buckle up, buttercup.”
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Love in the Jesus Tradition
Nijay Gupta has this quote from Howard Thurman on the love of Christ: The religion of Jesus says to the disinherited: “Love your enemy. Take the initiative in seeking ways by which you can have an experience of the common sharing of mutual worth and value. It may be hazardous, but you must do it.
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What can you do? Share the TRUTH
One of the organizations I have been associated with through two sources over the past years posted about the recent freeze of government grants that has affected their ministry to local refugees. In a haze of lobbing cultural and political grenades, it’s important to work to understand just how drastic actions have devastating impacts on good work. I will post…
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To pray honest prayers
This was from a recent Renovare newsletter: Feeling overwhelmed, exasperated, enraged?
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The temptation to “multitask”
Psalm 27:4 — “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek…”
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The public square and Christian voices
I am grateful for solid Christian thinkers and communicators who stand in the public square to bring solid comment to our current cultural messes.
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We learned to tell cheap lies
I am not good with poetry. It is difficult to read. If I hear it, I begin to understand.
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Lessons in prayer
What I am hearing as I study and lean into prayer and waiting:
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The God who will not give up
“God saves in ways past finding out, with a persistence and wisdom exceeding anything we can or will understand.” — Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder
