This was the old ending to the Young Widows article I wrote in November. I have revised that review if you’d like to check it out. This feeling, this idea of need, not the want to make music, the overwhelming weight of having to make it almost out of compulsion. Almost like the Christian who [...]

Why was Jesus baptized? Genesis 1:1-5 Psalm 29 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 While I was a student at Greenville College, my favorite classes were the ones I took taught by Dr. Scott Neumann of the History department.  Neumann’s teaching style is right up my alley because it combines both the auditory and visual learning methods [...]

Mark! Thanks for your email.  Justin has been on my mind almost every day in the past few months.  I am so grateful to have known him and the rest of you, Chesnuts.  I have two things to share.  The first is an article I wrote for the Papyrus that was printed a week after [...]

Matthew 14:22-33 (NRSV) 22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24but by this time the boat, [...]

Christ, I’m still winging it.I want to know you have a plan.Help me to see it.I feel like I catch glimpses of you from time to time and then you’re gone.I feel like I understand you a little and then I forget and you are beyond my grasp.I feel like I see you occasionally and [...]

I live in a city that never ends. I often forget you have a personal name.

we must always keep into account the frailty of our humanness, and to remember we can be outspokenly wrong, not completely informed, and even offensive the the open-minded Christ we serve.  In other words, let us not cast the first stone upon the homosexual, just like Christ does not cast the first stone upon the [...]

Must we be so silent? Unable to speak? As though our tongue is limp and our mind always on other things I admit that I feel shame only seldom when I remember that I’ve forgotten you I do not know why How can I care for one I’ve never seen? have hardly felt? nor have [...]

Jacob Eckeberger posted this on his new blog.  There’s a link on his page.  This quote is incredible: This is from Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh: When Jesus said, “I am the way,” He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way. In the Acts of [...]

To you, O shade O mysterious one who has crafted this illusory experience of faith around my head like the thick, grey cloud that forewarns a storm. I take steps blindly, but scrambling to clear the fog from in front of my face and this makes me so off-balance it’s a wonder I do not [...]