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Some Thoughts on Jeremiah
This past week, in Joplin, our students spent some time with Jeremiah…hearing about his life: his struggles and triumphs and what makes a great life. Stephen Lutz says that Jeremiah 29:11 is the most...
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Adventure, Love, Suffering (RePost)
From Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost (The Faith of Leap) “To love is to suffer…and that’s probably why we generally don’t do it well. Unwillingness to venture, plus a desire to be safe, holds us back...
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Pain Deepens Love
“It is true that in a technocratic society all human relationships are reduced to the level of things, and general apathy is spreading on an epidemic scale. It is true that in a world of high...
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The Icing on a Turd Cake
My final year in college my dorm burnt down. That was the icing on a turd cake of a year. The twin towers fell a week into school. A kid overdosed on my floor and died in his sleep. A girl in my small...
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The Most Emo Psalm of All Time
There are bleak Psalms and then there’s the 88th Psalm. It doesn’t get much darker than this: “You have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend.” (v. 18) At times...
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All Wounds and No Scars (Thoughts on A Culture of Grievance)
The title (all wounds/no scars) comes from Erwin McManus’s new book The Artisan Soul, and sums up perfectly some thoughts that have been brewing for a while. Also, what follows is, in many ways, a...
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