How’s your Sabbath going?
No, I didn’t get my days mixed up during vacation. But I did read something while I was away that got me thinking: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). I know: nothing new here. I’m guessing most of you have [...]
I admit that I have a sort of love/hate relationship with poetry. I like it when it makes me think; I don’t like it when it makes me feel stupid; for example, for not having a PhD in literature and consequently not knowing the “code.” (Come to think of it, maybe that’s how some people feel about reading [...]
“Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress” (I Timothy 4:15).
Progress, not perfection. As we saw a couple of Sundays ago, the word “perfect” in the Bible means “completion,” “maturity,” “going all the way,” rather than never faltering or sinning or committing an error. But in [...]
As you can tell, blogging hasn’t been at the top of my list of priorities this week. I’ve been trying to catch up on a few things, as well as write a newsletter article. Personally, I’ve been encouraged by my attempts to find and maintain that “sweet spot” in being yoked with Christ.
Does Jesus “loom large” in your daily life? The words “loom large” came to me this morning, seemingly out of nowhere. According to Webster’s, the word “loom” means “to appear in an impressively great or exaggerated form.” Is it possible to ‘exaggerate’ the importance of Jesus?
I’d like you to pay attention to something today.
Everything.
Bill Donahue, in his book, In the Company of Jesus, tells the following experience he had in a seventh-grade science class:
One of the things we look for in a friend is someone who will accept us as we are and love us no matter what. Is Jesus that kind of friend? Does he really love us or is he just putting up with us? Does he seem distant a lot of the time because he’s [...]
The flipside of “holy dissatisfaction” (see yesterday’s post) is holy desire. Holy dissatisfaction arises out of holy desires. It is this holy desiring that Jesus encourages us to bring to our praying: “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will [...]
Yesterday I talked about the mystery of the cross. But the cross points to an even greater mystery. Its name is “Jesus.”
“Who do the crowds say I am?” Jesus poses this question to his disciples at about the half-way point in each of the first three gospels. The disciples respond by saying that Jesus is [...]
“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: ‘Everyone is looking for you!’ Jesus replied, ‘Let us go somewhere else — [...]
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