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12 mins read|11/08/18The more that we hear the law, the more we recognize others as those who, like us, are torn and tattered by the wounds of sin and brokenness.
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15 mins read|11/08/18We take what we perceive to be freedom and turn it into a new credo, a new law, an idol to be lifted up and lived out.
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7 mins read|10/09/18I have been very busy lately, trying to understand things.
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10 mins read|10/04/18Love is the sum of the law. Love God with all your heart, spirit, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That means that if love can't be done when it needs to be done then get rid of the law, because it's not lawful.
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13 mins read|10/04/18Perhaps if we indulged our Christian freedom around them, they would come to see that “the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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11 mins read|08/25/18For on the other side of the death of forgiveness is the resurrection of joy. An easter in which we emerge from the tomb in the arms of the man whose scars glow with mercy.
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9 mins read|08/01/18When those who are serving joyfully and willingly are instead encouraged to complain that they are carrying the load for the rest of the body, all hope is lost.
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13 mins read|07/31/18Jesus dies for the sin of the world. That means he dies for the person who disappoints us. He shed His blood for the person who doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved.
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19 mins read|07/23/18No matter which side, it’s easy for all of us to build Bible verses into grenades aimed at obliterating the political other.
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11 mins read|07/22/18Jesus comes to pop our bubbles of pride, implode our towers of vanity, expose our arrogant adulting ways, and brings us down, down, down. Down to his level, which is the level of crucifixion.
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13 mins read|04/23/18We have to endure darkness before we’re ready for the light again. God is doing what he does best: he’s conforming us to his Son, to Jesus, who was buried in the darkness and rose again into the light on Easter.
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8 mins read|03/03/18Give us eyes to see the face of Jesus in that little child wriggling in front of us, tugging at his mom’s sleeve, wanting a drink of water.
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