Once when I finished Morning Prayer, with it’s rhythm of prayers, Scripture, and song, the Spirit whispered to my heart, “You just participated in the heartbeat of the Resurrected Jesus”. This was a punctuated moment in my growing awareness that such worship is a cosmological reality, that the liturgy of the Church is a gift […]

Tragedy is the nature of our existence in this age between the Fall and Kingdom completion, for we indelibly long for and envision a reality beyond what the world and our nature can presently provide. In this age, the best we can hope for by grace is a real but limited good that functions as […]

The cross was Jesus’ enthronement. He was beaten, stripped, mocked, and shamed by a crowd who did not know that the shame he displayed in his body on the cross was their own. They only saw a failed messiah and yet Jesus’ seeming defeat was the beginning of his victory which would culminate in his […]

Throughout my life I’ve heard that God’s holiness is the reason we sinners cannot stand before him, that his holiness is the measure of moral perfection against which we are compared and found greatly wanting. Lately I’ve been thinking this notion misses the heart of what holiness means. Instead of judgment, God’s holiness is about […]

Awhile back while at Pismo I was surrounded by many opportunities to take beautiful pictures, and yet I was without my camera. I did, however, have my camera phone, which at best can be characterized as a point and shoot. In taking pictures I discovered that the constraints of my camera phone forced me to […]