About a week ago, I posted a new piece at the Church at Charlotte blog. I was recently disappointed. It wasn’t a huge thing, but the disappointment is real and it’s been roiling around in my soul for a while now and I’ve been wrestling with God over it. Around the same time, a friend asked me about my walk […]
Though We’re Strangers
I put up a post about a month ago at my church’s blog that I haven’t shared here yet. It contains references to Rich Mullins and oblique references to Hutchmoot, just so you know what you’re getting into. My first year the weekend missed my expectations entirely, but was one of the best weekends of my life. I found things […]
This Is My Story
Story, story, story. The word echoed through my weekend, shaped by various tongues.
Post-Moot
We are post-Hutchmoot again, and I am certain I will have many things to say in the next few days, but I’ll begin with a few quotes.
Catching Up
I have, again, been remiss in posting here, but I do have some recent posts elsewhere. Here’s a bit of a recap: Saturday: Sabbath Wondering what the day between the crucifixion and resurrection sounded like. When I lived in Pennsylvania, my small town had a Chabad- Hasidic Jewish synagogue at the top end of State Street. Newtown was full of […]
The Still, Small Voice
I sat at a concert about a month ago and listened as the man standing before us, guitar in hand, dredged up the whole of his soul and threw it down in rhythm, chord, meter, and lyric. I desperately wanted to raise my hands and join him in the soul-pouring. I adored the song. I adored the performance. I worshiped […]
The Race That Knows Joseph
“They’re our kind of people,” Julie said. It’s the sort of phrase that could be cruel. It could be unkind, exclusive, evasive. But the way she used it, it was none of those things. “Couple on Two Benches” George Segal Source: Sculpture.org She was referring to what Anne Shirley, as a child, called “Kindred Spirits.” Later, when she grew up, […]
Living Stones
In Joshua 22, there’s this misunderstanding. The tribes who took allotments of land on the east side of the Jordan are finally going home after helping the other tribe conquer the land of Canaan, and they build an altar, somewhere near where they are going to cross back over the Jordan. The tribes in Canaan think they’re trying to build […]
Lamentations
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.So I say, “My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood […]
Where I Am Now – Keeping Focused
This morning, someone made a comment about passages of Scripture that have, in the past, impacted you so deeply that they’ve become a part of the fabric of your being. At the words, I cast my memory back and thought of passages like that in my life. The first to come to mind was a verse in Second Timothy that […]