http://www.thedarkglass.net Trying to nail down the shifting signifiers Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:16:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It struck me recently that being a steward, far from being a demeaning title that serves to remind us that we are living on someone else's property, is actually a reminder of the exalted state for which we were made. God designed us to have our habitation in Him, and ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/03/08/to-be-a-steward/ Jesus came to freely share his sonship with us. He came to give us the same confidence he had as the eternally begotten and faithful Son of the Father. This is perhaps obvious regarding the testimony of Scriptures, but recently this reality has been striking more deeply into my heart, ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/03/04/well-beyond-the-ordinary/ The two battlefields that I will address this Lenten season are Fear and Restlessness. Both of these realities are pervasive in my soul, and as I look back on the whole of my adult life, I cannot think of a time when both of these enemies, in various forms, were ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/03/03/two-lenten-battlefields/ God structured us to function upon the presence and operations of His Spirit, such that we cannot be fully human apart from the Spirit. In the Fall we were closed off from the Spirit, we barred the Spirit from abiding and operating in the intimate recesses of our being. Through ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/03/02/a-spirit-soaked-humanity/ So, the father of my nephew sent an email, with a bunch of humorous content, to my wife for my mom, which my wife then forwarded to me. I read it, and laughed, and decided that given the theological bent of my blog I would share one of the items ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/02/24/heaven-hell/ So, in cleaning up and organizing I discovered a forgotten file folder with some essays that I wrote for various theology courses, some photos and postcards that used to decorate a wall at a former office of mine, and a few old poems I wrote. In looking through it all, ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/02/12/jelly-bag-fish/ The seamless gray that dominates the Fresno sky this time of year has withdrawn to reveal the brilliant face of the Sun, which hopefully is a good omen for my forthcoming trip this weekend to Aptos: a little city on the coast near Santa Cruz. The last time my family ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/02/12/right-through-nowhere/ For the persistent little narcissist within, I give you the following: Enjoy yourself!! http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/02/08/its-all-about-me/ The knowledge of God's love is the source and foundation of our love for one another. We cannot strengthen our love through bare strength of will. We cannot become more loving  by making love our conscious goal. According to how we are constituted, our love flows when we live in ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/02/05/the-foundation-of-our-love/ I have voraciously been feeding on Tim Keller's sermons. Tim is the senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in New York, and his ability to express the depth of God's grace, and its ability to form a new community of "peculiar people," has been for me a potent blessing. Below I give ... http://www.thedarkglass.net/2010/01/24/we-dont-fit/