My second time through. They don't write love stories like they used to.
Otherness
O holy Christ, your voice is stronger
than the torrents tempting us to take
the earthy waters; human potters mold more vessels
but you call us
NOT a Country, a Continent: AFRICA.
Letting our summer sun shine on Africa last week was exciting and enriching.
Revealed in Power
"That there is no other method of living piously and justly than that of depending upon God." - John Calvin
Call and Response
do you trust the gifts you're given?
neither do I, yet we both risk the touch
Luther and Progressive Covenantalism
Despite Luther's conclusion that "Christ, the Founder of the new generation, did not change the covenant; He changed the sign of the covenant," he stands removed from the Reformed tradition which provides starker continuity between circumcision and baptism.
Continuity or Union with Christ
"Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise" (WLC, Q.166)
Hello World! I'm Reading You Up!
And my heart for the world beats a quick tattoo with the love I feel for my children as we discuss the wonders God has made in people, language, dress, and custom.
Anselm on Submission & Duty
In the midst of this Trinitarian hogwash, I must recall a certain issue I have with anything label eternal submission.
Wait for It
Those are the things unseen. That is the city still unreceived. I can wait for that.
Astonishment
That in your endless quest for progress,
you would cultivate astonishment.
Above the Tree Line
I think about all the things we allow to come between us, and how little the Dead must dwell upon such things.
Remembering Aaron
For some reason, I can see Aaron and I picking strawberries in the kingdom. We'll both be smiling. With red faces and full hearts.
You Have Struggled with God
You'll be missed Aaron.
Κύριε, ἐλέησον
O Soul, Await
His poetry came into my life at a time I desperately needed it - heartbroken and reeling, going through my own crisis of faith, I did not know how to put into words what I was experiencing.
Barth and Christ's Subordination
"Barth has illegitimately read back into the Godhead the order he thinks he found in male-female relations." - Paul Molnar
The Suffering Community
"The very covenant upon which the Christian faith is built centers in the sufferings of Jesus Christ." - Wayne Oates
Reflections on Father's Day
For fathers, the quality of our husbandhood is reflected in our commitment to multigenerational fatherhood.
In Christ the Other Side
He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves." - Colossians 1:12-13, HCSB