Part of a Larger Story – Mar. 4, 2021
“The gospel means that every small story is part of a sweeping story, every ordinary life part of an extraordinary movement. God is busy making all things new, and the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus has opened that work to everyone who wants in on it.” –Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p. 157
Facing Pain
How it must have pained Jesus to reveal to his closest friends that he was leading them on a path that was going to bring suffering and rejection. Ultimately, it would bring even death.* We want our friends not to worry, not to dread what lies ahead, and yet we also want to be able […]
On Death – Jan. 22, 2021
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?The transient pleasures as a vision seem,And yet we think the greatest pain’s to die. How strange it is that man on earth should roam,And lead a life of woe, but not forsakeHis rugged path; nor dare he […]
Silence as Practice – Oct. 22, 2020
“Our culture is so fearful of the silence of death that it worships nonstop noise—perhaps as a secular sign of “eternal life”! In the midst of all that noise, small silences can help us become more comfortable with the Great Silence toward which we are all headed. Small silences bring us “little deaths,” which, to […]
