On Christmas Eve morning, I received a lesson on vulnerability. Roscoe, our special needs son, is tethered full time to a feeding tube. He can’t feed himself. He relies on this plastic lifeline no more than a few millimeters wide to bring nourishment to his body. Of course, he also relies on my wife and […]
Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room
A Christmas Mini-Retreat An empty, echoing room lined with lights and tinsel. Open, unfilled space, not yet prepared. An invitation left unsent. Shadows and darkness ping off of the walls. And the knock on the door goes unnoticed. These words offer a picture of a soul longing for the fullness of Jesus even among the […]
Training
My recent pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago would not have been the same if I had not trained for it. As soon as my friend, Kay, and I decided we were going to embark on this adventure we began training. She flew up to meet me in Tennessee and we took our first walk […]
How to Beat Procrastiholism
I’m going to work. I’m going to church. Both of these statements take our humanness and turn it into a place. Church is not a place and neither is work. We can easily see the error in this thinking about the church by simply looking at scripture. The church is human beings communing with Christ […]
Filling the Emptiness
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. Saint Augustine There’s a concept floating around. It has something to do with all of us having this heart-shaped hole inside of us only God can fill. I believe this to be metaphorically true. I think it’s often communicated (or perceived) that this filling is a one time event. […]
Light in the Darkness
I shivered as I stepped out into the cold night air. Part of me looked forward to running in the dark, while the other part shivered at the thought. I used to run at night all the time when I was in college, for study breaks and inspiration. That was different, though, there were street […]
Advent Reflections – Longing for Irresistibility (Fourth Monday of Advent – Christmas Eve)
Our Worship For Christmas Eve this Advent, let us worship this coming King through the scripture passages that tell of this miraculous Christmas story. Isaiah 7:14 (NIV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Malachi 3:1-4 (KJV) Behold, […]
