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The cultivated presence of God
This trip back through Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton has been slower. I’ve picked it up to read just a few pages, then put it down for awhile as I pondered something or I went back to reading other material. This past week I was walking through a difficult spiritual battle and picked up Merton again to read just…
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Back to Egypt
Our Old Testament text for Sunday will be Numbers 11. Numbers 11:1-6 remind me of the old Keith Green song, “So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt.” So… enjoy.
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Where I currently find “home”
I am going through notes for a book I want to write on Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship (what we’ve called The Cost of Discipleship in American publishing), the Book of Revelation, and the prophetic call they give concerning White Christian Nationalism.
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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.
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Christ the King Sunday
The liturgical year is almost over for those who worship in many churches such as the Anglican Church or Roman Catholic Church. The end of that year is Christ the King Sunday in the Anglican Church.
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Pentecostal Orthodoxy — real presence
“While others have come to the concept of real presence through faith and or propositional biblical truths, I came to real presence through experience.” — Emilio Alvarez, Pentecostal Orthodoxy
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The “fad” of liturgy
Early on in my journey into a more liturgical life I remember reading from other friends on Facebook about their exploration into liturgical worship. I remember when I was “hooked” by the Eucharist. Others, the more I read, really liked the typical “evangelical” worship model (concert level professional worship, topical sermons), but when they wanted some quiet, they loved going…
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Pentecostal Orthodoxy — I had been playing around
My reading has me in Emilio Alvarez’s new work: Pentecostal Orthodoxy: Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit. As I am in the early pages, I find myself evaluating where I was on my personal timeline compared to Alvarez. There are a few conclusions I draw from my timeline.
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Pentecostalism and the ancient church faith
Pentecostal Orthodoxy is out and I am here for it. Emilio Alvarez hits home for me: If you are a Pentecostal and you find yourself tired of solely identifying yourself with ripped-jeans, muscle-shirt preachers with $100 haircuts and heavily tinted beard; if you find yourself tired of moralistic therapy accompanied by emotional, performance-based worship devoid of godly and heavenly revelation;…
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Constant rhythms in my life
“Without grace, the Christian liturgy is hollow, and fruitful participation in it is impossible. The liturgy, like everything good in life, is an instance of grace.” — Patrick Malloy, Celebrating the Eucharist
Tag: Liturgy
