Lament and Hope: The Need For A Sackcloth and Ashes Revival
The first language of the church in a deeply broken world is not strategy, but prayer…Lament is a cry directed to GOD. Is it time for a ‘sackcloth and ashes’ revival?
Pilgrimage and Thin Places: Seeking Intimacy With GOD
Within days of my salvation, I longed to spend time in nature, seeking GOD and seeing Him reflected through His creation. There were times when a major decision was required in my life, and the mountains and beaches were where I sought GOD’s response…
Reframing the Liturgical Year
We do better to simply cry out for God’s coming than to make peace with God’s absence by fixating on our celebrations, with all their traditions and trappings…It has always been meant to be something we simply look through, are helped along by, not something we look at, something we assign divine agency to, or hope in…
Turning a Deaf Ear to the ‘American Way’
We tried to imitate [Jesus] in the 1960s…When I was a teenager I thought this meant going barefooted and having long hair. Today I’m finding that the call to discipleship is more expensive. It demands that I turn a deaf ear to the seductive force of materialism and the ‘American Way’…
Whole-Life Christian Faith: Out of the Box
Jesus calls us to…a spirituality that is incarnated…Will we go beyond the four walls of our comfortable Christianity and start living as disciples of Jesus? As Garrison Keillor has said: “Give up your good Christian life and follow Christ”…
Unplugging the Noise: Making Space for God’s Quiet Voice
I called the electric company and they informed me the power might be out for an hour or two. I couldn’t watch t.v., listen to music, read a book, or talk to anyone. I began to calm down and became accustomed to the quiet. I was alone with my thoughts for the first time in a long time. God had given me a gift…
Sabbath Manifesto: Ceasing From Technology
As I hear Neil Postman and Jacques Ellul’s voices ringing in my ear, and the Sabbath Manifesto folks calling us to reclaim sabbath and unplug- I am struck at how hard it is to escape from the tyranny of the Web we have woven.
Desert Island Discs With a Pinch of Spice
Yahweh gave us a simple formula, Love Him and love people. And in our zeal we can over-complicate things and get out of sync with His direction and pace for our lives.
Did Jesus Lead A Balanced Life?
I spent a lot of time reading through the gospels specifically asking myself the question How did Jesus spend his time on earth? It was an enlightening study as I started to realize that Jesus really did have a very balanced life…
Finding the Furious Longing of God
I wasn’t expecting a book to connect with me on such a visceral level. Through Brennan’s story, I saw how I had veered off the path. For all of my talk about how we need to put the Greatest Commandment into practice, I wasn’t exactly practicing what I preach.
