Posted in Confession, Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Grace, Jesus, New Covenant, Prayer, Story on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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All of us have hang-ups when it comes to praying. Sometimes we get tripped up and stumble around for awhile trying to figure out how to pray. Some of us at various times wonder if we should pray. At other times, we know we can, we know we should, [...]
Posted in Battle, Expression, Jesus, New Covenant, tagged Freedom on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Todd Nettleton, a friend and author of Justice For All, wrote on his blog this week, “If you choose carefully the right words, you don’t need nearly so many.” He was highlighting Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which every junior high student studies and often memorizes in history class some 150 years after it was [...]
Posted in Fellowship, Healing, Invitation, Journey, New Covenant, Restoration, Salvation, tagged Resurrection, Wounds on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are some things that time can not mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold. -Frodo, The Return of the King
Frodo and Sam have come a long way on their journey. For months the two hobbits fought all that Mordor would bring against them in their quest to save the [...]
Posted in Jesus, Morality, New Covenant, Salvation, Scripture, tagged A.W. Tozer, Discernment, Judgment, Orientation on February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What a way to open up a discussion, huh! “The Judgment of God.” That’s about as heavy a phrase as I can imagine reading. It sounds like the title of some 1970 apocalyptic movie, or a promo for a particular ideology that was touted during the days of Hurricane Katrina.
But before we all sigh under [...]
Posted in Fellowship, Healing, Identity, Love, New Covenant, Story, tagged Body, Brian Doerksen, C.S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, Mask, Rich Mullins on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perusing through some blogs this morning, I hit on a post by my friend Kendall here called “Inside Where?” In it, he tells of reading through a book called Neverwhere where the protagonist finds himself hurled into a world where things don’t make sense and he has to begin to simply accept the extraordinary [...]
Posted in Battle, Glory, Home, Invitation, Jesus, New Covenant, Postmodernism, Salvation, Scripture, tagged Adventure, C.S. Lewis, Desire, Peter, The Weight of Glory on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
-Psalm 8:1, 3-4
Can you imagine [...]
Posted in Discipleship, Jesus, Journey, New Covenant, Prayer, tagged Brian McLaren, Hebrew, Ransom, Rich Mullins on December 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
You have saved the best till now.
-John 2:10, italics mine
The final project from singer/songwriter Rich Mullin’s prolific career, The Jesus Record, came about because he felt compelled to spend time thinking on the life and words of Jesus. Though there is much to think of in this journey with God, and much he did think [...]
