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Thomas ‘a Kempis in “The Imitation of Christ” tells a story about how the Christ on the crucifix suddenly spoke to the monk who was so anxious about his salvation and said, “If you new that all was well, what would you, today, do, or stop doing?”  C. S. Lewis adds, “When you have foun Read More →

So, after several hours of work on the passage for this Sunday, I reached in my file drawer and grabbed the appropriate worship folder, but when I saw “Transfiguration Sunday” printed on the label it dawned on me that I’d spent all that time working on the wrong passage.  I hadn’t loo Read More →

Reading through the introductory notes for Colossians in the NRSV, this phrase popped off the page: “transformation of the present by faith…” This is what God is doing, and is one of the arguments presented in Colossians to a group of folks who are being tempted to look in a lot Read More →

   “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes.” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Flannery O’Connor, Wendell Berry and C. S. Lewis seem to agree that there is no  such thing as the “secular.”  In her prayer journal, Flannery Read More →

Sought, or the ‘Hound of Heaven’ It’s the blind who receive their sight, not the ones who claim to see. It’s sinners who are saved, why would the righteous need be? One lost sheep, the Good Shepherd goes out to find Rejoicing more upon return than o’re those left behind.  It’s the los Read More →