life in the kingdom
I occasionally take time to review The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard. I read this book a few years ago, and was profoundly impacted by it. Today as I flipped […]
Category Archives: discipleship
money… the root of all upheaval
Money. Some take a vow of poverty and avoid it altogether, while others are willing to hurt other people to get more of it and keep it. Conflict over money […]
in search of the pool of Siloam
“[Jesus] spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of […]
nowhere or now/here
I believe God is trying again to make it clear to me that the most valuable moments are not the ones in the “good ol’ days” or in the looked-forward-to […]
i’m wrong about you
From Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral: You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias […]
still learning to pray
I took the day off of work today to spend some time praying and reading. For a long stretch of time, I’ve been moving from one thing to the next, […]
porch, then altar
It was the dark night of the soul. In search of light, I set out; first for the porch, then for the altar. Increase of mind didn’t bring strength of […]
what’s wrong
I have quit watching television news. I am no longer watching the people dying, leaders corrupting, riots starting, minorities complaining, majorities minimizing, children disappearing, and skies falling. Before you accuse […]
resisting rest
Some nights I simply won’t go to bed. I will sit and stare at the television (how bad do I really need to know about the history of the soybean […]
creation 1
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.” – Edmund Burke
