Sometimes I wonder,
Given all that’s happened between us,
All our long history,
Can it really be different?
What is a reconciled world
Really like,
With all our half-hearted attempts at love
Standing in the middle? Continue reading “Victory Prayer”
The battle is raging, will you take my hand? Are you afraid? ‘Cause I know I am “What will they gain?” “What could you lose?” “Life or Death!” The world makes us choose “Live for your rights!” “Die for the cause!” When we cease to be human, all hope is lost Jesus looks us in […]
Thank you for the wounds of ministry, sustained in imitation of You; The moments I become a parable, pointing toward Your deeper truth. These longsuffering moments make me who I am, though they lack the exhilaration of victory. In moments of ease I may enjoy, even need the respite, but hearts, not least my own, […]
Inspired by Luke 9:23-27 and John 12:1-8 The life of the disciple is a spectacle – a strange and offensive thing, a thing we ‘ought to be ashamed of’. And yet the disciple lives this way in plain sight, no humiliation of devotion hidden, every unjustifiable cost exposed. This is the way of our Master, […]
In Pursuit of More 