My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Walls of Pride
Pride prevents intimacy and love. You can’t get pass through a wall if it is not broken. We must seek brokenness of heart, without which we cannot know love or…
Luke 1 -Zechariah and Elizabeth
Luke opens up his gospel describing Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth. His descriptions are enveloped with Old Testament imagery. Like Abram and Sarai, they were both advanced in years and…
Unicorns and fairies
If we were suddenly in a world where unicorns and fairies were common, they would in short order lose their novelty as we went about our every day life. We…
Don’t be independent
We are told to be independent and be our own person, but it is in submission that we truly become more than who we are.
Behold the Lamb
We don’t become like Christ by imitating Him. We are transformed into the image of Jesus as we behold Him. We behold Jesus, because He holds us in His embrace.
Monsters
We become monsters when we lean on our understanding; it is in the vulnerability of being broken through the fear of the Lord that we are healed.
Our narratives
We are very good at creating consistent narratives that fit our experiences of the world, but we are not very good at interpreting the world.
All we need is affirmation
People don’t want a God of Love, we want a god of affirmation.
Only someone unworthy can learn
I was talking with my daughter about something and I realized you cannot learn and be prideful at the same time. Pride creates a fool. You cannot seek your worth…
The deepest heart ache
Have you ever felt the ache of lost love? What will the eternal heart ache be if we have rejected the One True Love? The descriptions of hell seem tame.
