Faith

Books every Christian should read

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“I want to play with my workbench”

After Jaxon’s birthday party a couple of weeks ago, we gave him the pick of what we’d do as a…

Friday Reminds

Friday reminds.

Friday reminds of darkness.
Earlier in the week was parade, meals with friends,
times of worship, times of teaching.
Yet not Friday.
Friday is for mourning
Friday is for tears, for wailing.
Friday reminds, and the reminder is terrible.

Creative Lent #6 — Erase

The majority of yesterday was spent traveling in some form. The full distance spanned varying degrees of foot traffic, cab rides, a bus ride, the “L” train, Southwest Airlines, and our Toyota Corolla. If I’d intentionally planned that spread I’d have fit a boat in somewhere for…

Thoughts on the “Son of God” movie

This past weekend brought the release of the movie “Son of God.” About two weeks before opening…

Lent: the WHY is more important than the WHAT

Today began the season of Lent.

Is prayer ever a difficult thing for you?

Prayer. We want to. We’re told we should. We’re convinced prayer would change things…

Reminder of grace

Sometimes we get reminders of the grace of God in deep and profound ways from the most simple and unexpected moments. They are such profound reminders of the depth of His profound grace that it feels like the angle of our point of view widens. As our peripheral kicks back in, after squinting…

Seeing the tragic places as beautiful places

In the summer of 2006 Jeannette was 5 ½ months pregnant with our first. We hadn’t taken a real vacation in a few years, so we decided to have a nice last fling before the two of us became the three of us. There was no need for negotiations on where we…