A Prayer Paradigm

A Prayer Paradigm

Have you wanted to pray but haven’t known how? Have you ever wanted to cry to God with “groans too deep for words” (Rom 8:26)? Prayer can be a profoundly painful and emotionally complicated experience, wrought with relational  and sometimes private matters. My wife...
Advent | Love

Advent | Love

Do you hear it? Have you felt it? This time of year can churn within us and around us a holy imagination as well as a holy aggravation. Christmas songs for example, great…..until about the 15th one in a row! Take “Mary Did you Know”. Beautiful song, biblically...
From Busyness to Restfulness

From Busyness to Restfulness

To mark the start of the Christmas season, from Every Moment Holy volume 1: “Grant us grace to savor this season as we live it together, that in later days the memory of this place and these times will linger sweetly, shapingOur lives,Our words,Our deeds.” Through the...
Theology of Sexuality

Theology of Sexuality

Regardless of our past or present choices, many of us have great concerns about our sexuality and spirituality. In a Western society often characterized by a feelings-first culture and sound-bite news, confusing messages about how to relate to ourselves, and others,...
What’s LUST got to do with it?

What’s LUST got to do with it?

Tina Turner said, “You must understand though the touch of your hand, makes my pulse react. That it’s only the thrill of boy meeting girl, opposites attract, it’s physical, only logical. You must try to ignore that it means more than that.” What’s love got...