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Story

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Let the story work on you before you work on a story. Don’t theologize until you let the story put your soul through a work-out   To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly,...

Elephants and Lambs

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My favorite gospel, the Gospel of John is “the flower of all Scripture,” wrote third century theologian Origen of Alexandria (184-254). Its roots go so far down that the gospel’s “deep and hidden meaning no one can ever fully gather.” Gregory the Great (AD 540-604) in...

Jesus of the Scars

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“Jesus of the Scars” By Edward Shillito (1872-1948)   IF we have never sought, we seek thee now,      Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars, We must have sight of them—pricks on thy brow,      We must hare thee, O Jesus of the Scars.   The heavens…...

Cocoon or Chrysalis?

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Cocoon or Chrysalis? This would make a good sermon title and theme. The church can either shroud you in a cocoon of safety and religiosity, or enfaith you in a chrysalis of change and metamorphosis. The “sheltering arms” do not domesticate us in a playpen, but prepare...

Falling in Love with God

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The Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) had claimed that being in love was essentially a matter of attention abnormally fixed. He says, “Falling in love, initially, is no more than this: attention abnormally fastened upon another person.”  His claim...