Faith
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I…
About Grief
C.S. Lewis likens the death of a beloved to an amputation, and I never realized how fitting a description it was until now. Like an amputation, you learn to live with the grief and the loss but your whole way…
Mirari’s Birth Story
What do you do when God answers your prayers but not in the way you expected? Or when he answers some prayers and not others? What do you do when it feels like you were brought to the very edge…
Dance Between Joy and Sorrow
It was Holy Week this week, and it is a time when Christians reflect on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. It is a time of both sorrow & joy – sorrow for the brokenness, death, and sin that we…
Extravagant Love
In college, whenever the discussion of engagement rings came up and what kind the girls wanted, I’d reply saying that I didn’t want a diamond ring. I’d always found them a bit too expensive and excessive to have. Why spend…
Becoming a person of depth
Electronic communication has radically changed our lives…We can all be reached all the time. There never needs to be any silence and solitude in our lives. And so we end up as good people, but as people who are not…
Water Purifier
I’ve been reading Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity lately, and it’s been a very thought-provoking book for me on how counter-cultural it is to be a serious disciple of Christ. Rather, [Jesus] takes away…
Honest Prayers
We discussed the topic of prayer tonight in small group, and one of the questions we ended up discussing was how we struggled with knowing which of two prayers to pray – the one where we pray for what we…
to touch humanity
2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately…
reflections on ‘the kite runner’
I recently read ‘The Kite Runner’. The story of betrayal, of violence and assault done by humans to other humans, and the destruction people caused in the name of God both infuriated and saddened me. The book traces the main…
