Monthly Archives: December 2011

Year after year of worldly promises, wishful resolutions, impotent promises. 2012 ? It’s not so much that I feel a need to expound on my/your options, right? It really is just a confronting challenge, a loving brother to brother shoulder … Continue reading →

When we don’t feel like reading and meditating on God’s word, when we sit/stand in a worship service and don’t worship, when we gather to pray and won’t offer up even a quiet word of surrender, is our fall back … Continue reading →

What does your ‘devil’ look like?  Do you envision a horrific fiendish creature in flaming infernal persona?  No, probably not.  Who would be tempted to follow such a being, right?  Maybe you picture a vicious roaring lion, but would that … Continue reading →

“…are we in bondage to the pleasures of this world so that, for all our talk about the glory of God, we love television and food and sleep and sex and money and human praise just like everybody else?  If … Continue reading →

“…And we need to rediscover Augustine’s peculiar slant —a very biblical slant—on grace as the free gift of sovereign joy in God that frees us from the bondage of sin.  We need to rethink our Reformed doctrine of salvation so … Continue reading →

“The power that saves and sanctifies is the work of God deep beneath the human will to transform the springs of joy so that we love God more than sex or seas or scholarship or food or friends or fame … Continue reading →

Intimate, closely-tied connections to joy… from Jesus Christ, lover of my soul. John 15:9 -12 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.  Abide in my love.” “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my … Continue reading →

Chapter I Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the … Continue reading →

Where is my face turned? “I had my back to the light and my face was turned towards the things which it illumined, so that my eyes, by which I saw the things which stood in the light, were themselves … Continue reading →

Sight is a gift; received, grace upon grace   I step down this path with color and nuance and think nothing special I draw conclusion and response without delay or dependence I am consumed with familiar thoughts, images and senses … Continue reading →