When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.