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In-Tension

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Holiness, Jesus, Journey, Love, Scripture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The disciples did not understand any of this.
-Luke 18:34
The journey we’re on with Christ is one of great tension, of what can at times feel like a balancing act,  tug-of-war between two opposing forces and we are tight-roping the taut rope between, trying at times with all our might not to lose our balance.
But knocking [...]

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After the Fray

Posted in Battle, Holiness, Journey, Salvation, Story, tagged , , , on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill paints a picture of ancient Irish culture by discussing Tain Bo Cuailnge, an Irish prose epic. In the story, the hero-warriors Cuchulainn (pronounced koo-hool-n) and Ferdia are foster brothers who love and fight for one another. They trained together under the same master and fight beside one [...]

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Falling on Holy Ground

Posted in Holiness, Story, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday afternoon I headed out to the Falls, an area not far from where we live where a creek meandering its way through the edge of town cascades some 20 feet or so over a jagged cliff edge stretching 50 yards or so across. (It happens to be the state’s largest waterfall.) Nearby are the [...]

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Large With Strength

Posted in Discipleship, Holiness, Poetry, tagged , on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

When I called, you answered me; you made me bold with strength in my soul.
-Psalm 138:3, NASB.
I opened the Scriptures this morning to this verse. Immediately I felt drawn — no, not drawn — pierced by something in it. What is it, exactly, that has speared me? Something about strength in the soul. Something about [...]

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Redeemed from Fire by Fire

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Holiness, Invitation, Jesus, Longing, Love, Poetry, Prayer, tagged , , , , , , on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The One discharged of sin and error.
The only hope or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre –
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of [...]

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Restoring the Broken

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Holiness, Story on February 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My Father… cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit.–Jesus, John 15:2
The average temperatures this winter in Missouri are 20-25 degrees below the average for this time of year. Not a big deal in itself, and not all that uncommon. We have moderately cold winters here every four or five years, where you [...]

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Disappointment

Posted in Holiness on March 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

You let the distress bring you to God, not drive you from him. The result was all gain, no loss. Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive [...]

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