Meditation
Youth soccer
Are there levels in Christianity? Can you level up as in a video game? Are there graduation ceremonies and opening convocations? Are there different leagues?
Meditation
Hope and childhood and purity and secrets and love and faith and hope
“Like God.” That’s an audacious claim. Absurdly so? Will we be omnipotent and omniscient? What can you do with such a claim?
Meditation
A glorious inheritance
Sometimes I like to pretend that I’m a Christian. What if I really believed that God is the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-generous spirit?
Meditation
What good is faith?
Read Romans 4:1-5:8. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. (Romans 5:1-2) I believe Read more…
Meditation
Hope’s Longing
Is Advent a time of mourning? Or is it a time of joy and peace? Or both? Or is it something else—a longing for completion, for perfection, for the end of conflict, for the coming of Christ’s kingdom, a longing seasoned with a dash of hope at its certainty and Read more…
Meditation
Hope
Read Romans 15:4-13. Hope is an orientation of the soul, a direction of travel. It is an expectation of eventual arrival. It is motivation toward a goal, confidence in achieving it, joy and peace in the journey. Hope is building a house, planting a vineyard, raising a family. The lack Read more…