(The following is excerpted from my booklet, “The Consummation of All Things in Christ: Ephesians Chapters 1-4“) *** “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and…
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A Daunting Love
Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another (1 John 4:10-11). As I read these verses today, I found myself overwhelmed by my…
This Cross
This cross, this cross I know so well, each wood-grain scar, each bloody dell; each splinter broken from this tree, which once in him, is now in me; each splinter growing like a knife that plunges deep with worship’s life; a sacrifice my life to be, for Him, for Him who died for me.
Down the Drain
When I wrote the following poem, I was still VERY non-Christian. One day I sat thinking about how arrogant it was for Christians to say they knew THE Truth. I remembered Jesus’s words: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). More arrogance. But then (courtesy of the Holy Spirit, I’m sure) a thought…
Hypocrite!!
Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face It’s not unusual to hear people level the charge of “hypocrite” at Christians. Usually, this happens during debates about moral issues or the existence of God or any other time it seems convenient. Almost no one cares about logical fallacies in this day and age. At the risk of irrelevance,…
Hospice, not a Hospital
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been reading Pope Francis’s Papal Encyclical, “Care for Our Common Home.” The Pope focuses a lot of attention on curbing human problems–especially climate change and poverty–through public policy shifts. He is certainly not alone in this. It is not unusual to hear Christians calling for systemic shifts…
The Cut Flower of Creation
Photo by Carrie McKamey Recently, a friend asked me to read Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home. In it, the Pope lays out his views “on the environment and human ecology.” A great deal of the discussion centers on human-caused climate change. Pope Francis intricately explores the environmental and social ramifications…
Catholic Bishops Respond to The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently rejected the traditional definition of marriage in one of their decisions. Many celebrate this decision. Even as I write, I am forced to view a rainbow banner across the top of the page, something WordPress has inflicted on all its users. (If you feel this is…
The Holy Pigeon
Years ago, when I read about the Holy Spirit descending on Jesus during His baptism, I imagined it like this: A sparkling white dove wreathed in sunbeams came down through the clouds at escalator speed, wings flashing up and down in slow motion. It was a glorious, calendar-worthy, photo-op moment. All of that changed one…
Immor(t)ality
Drawing by Patrick Murphy Immor (ality) (tality) The difference is the (t) (cross)
The Voice of One 