Mar 14
2019
How Do You Spell Relief? U-G-H
"I can’t fix this. My ‘Ugh’ is my groan
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An Abundant Fountain
"We fail to remember that God is as the Psalmist describes: an abundant fountain, a river of delights, a full house, a radiant light. The Psalmist knows God never operates out of scarcity. Where we must begin with Deeper is recognizing the ever flowing depths of the fountain of God. He is living water, because it is always abundant and always flowing. Scarcity mindset keeps us from going deeper, because we are afraid the safety net either isn’t there or doesn’t go deep enough. We won’t risk, because we can’t. We can’t possibly risk such things. There might not be anything left. There might not be any left for me. We are all like Goldilocks lamenting lost porridge, broken chairs, and occupied beds. But God always has room and always makes room. He is an overflowing fountain."
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Deeper
Abiding through the fall at City Pres meant holding on for dear life to your life preserver ring hoping the other side of the rope is attached to the rescue boat, continually clinging, continually waiting. But abiding in the new year at City Pres is what I think we’re being called into: “Deeper.”
Keep ReadingMar 13
2019
Sabbath: Insisting on Rest
"Each of us is made by God to delight and rest in him differently. And yet by taking one day a week for rest, the very rhythm of our lives declares that we are God’s people, formed in his Image and secure in the work he has finished on our behalf."
Oct 18
2018
Letting Go of Control
"We NEED Christ. In Christ we can have hope that we don’t need control; that his blood was and is enough."
Apr 26
2018
Crying Out to a God Who Cares
Turns out, I may be pretty good at structuring a prayer, and asking for spiritual-sounding things, but this weekend God reminded me that I’ve also been pretty good at missing the point of prayer.
Aug 31
2017
Real Rest
How often do I “rest” by binging on show after show? Or fritter my time away on silly articles on Twitter or Reddit? Or squander my Saturday on a unimportant book?
Jul 28
2017
Utopia
The good news is God is a homemaking God.
May 11
2017
My Own Little Kingdom
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Apr 6
2017
It is Finished
It is because of and through this good news that we can live under the banner “it is finished” and embark on the parenting adventure from grace instead of for grace.
Dec 2
2016
Pause, Breathe, Rest, Dab
The arrival of Jesus means that we will sigh no more. We will have in the words of Marcus Mumford, a love that will not betray, dismay or enslave us, a love that will set us free and make us who we were meant to be. Advent is having this love, waiting for this love, hoping for this love, banking on this love. So, we pause, we read, we pray, we remember, and we cry Come, Lord Jesus, Come.
Sep 2
2016
Grace for Parents
Maybe you vacillate between "having it all together" parenting and "I'm drunk" parenting. Maybe you want to fix your kids. Maybe you want to have compassion but don't, want to be interested, but aren't. Maybe you don't really know or aren't really sure, because you have checked out... Parenting does expose. It shows us our idols.
Feb 26
2014
Liberating Thoughts
Gospel Thoughts from My Week at Liberate