The blessed kingdom
Friday, November 21, 2008
It was a time of celebration and you could feel it in the air. The messiah was coming to town and during the time of the Passover. It could not have been scripted any better for them. The Passover that sacred holiday when all Jews called to remembrance the true Great escape leaving Egypt behind
The Kingdom’s Road
Friday, April 11, 2008
I had just begun to baptize a new convert in our baptismal tank at the church when I heard my two year old son Zion let out a terrified cry. I am not sure what frightened him so much but something about the baptism scared him. Yet to my amazement he has been mimicking the baptism ever since. He
The Risk of Freedom
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Risk of freedom
If you love something you must set it free, if it loves you it will return.
I read a very interesting blog the other day written in response to a question posed by an ex-con. He asked for advice about living on the “outside” and what he could do to survive. There were a lot
Objects of God’s affection
Monday, February 25, 2008
I have to give my brother Aaron some credit for this one. He turned me on to this revelation a few weeks ago and it has been turning my world upside down ever since. There are a lot of his words in this piece.
I believe most of us live with a paradigm about God. Consciously or sub-consciously we
Nobody’s
Monday, February 18, 2008
Gerard
I’ve heard it said that as a church if you reach for the ones no one is after God will give you the ones everyone is after. Yet as I consider that statement it begins to play on the part of me I am trying to kill.
I have gotten close enough to the master to find that the ones no one wants