The Stars That Move With My Vessel

A few nights ago, some friends got together at my friend Patrick Schlabs’ house and had a worship jamboree.  Each person brought a song that had been formative in their lives as worshipers of God and everybody joined in to sing and play.   God is gracious. Click the link above to hear a recording. […]

A book should be read with a pen.

Absalom & Oedipus: Redeeming Fathers & Sons

Follow the narrative: A young male pup named Hank is born, suckles his mother amongst the litter, grows and develops sexually, at which point he begins looking for a mate; however, Hank runs in a pack and each pack has an alpha male, which is probably the father to Hank’s litter, who dominates the other males […]

Paul’s Exodus

I’ve read stories from the Old Testament as allegory to the narrative of Christ delivering the world from sin, but this is the first time I’ve seen stories from the New Testament read that way. From Peter Leithart: When Paul’s nephew learns about the plot to kill Paul in Jerusalem, he goes to the chiliarch, […]

My hands are full.

Romans 1:15-20 – I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome… For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown […]

In all of this I realized, if I want to write, or if I want to make anything that might truly be called art then I must not simply be acquainted with the wounds of the world–I must became a cartographer of my own wounds. I must map their terrain and navigate their crevices to […]

Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous

BY SCOTT CAIRNS You could almost think the word synonymous    with mind, given our so far narrow    history, and the excessive esteem in which we have been led to hold what is,    in this case, our rightly designated    nervous systems. Little wonder then that some presume the mind itself both part    and parcel of […]

12/14/2003

Still true, now: The blessing of the LordIs spoken through a friend;A curse from the LordIs averted through a friend. I will set a constellation in my heartTowards the worship of the Lord;The northern stars will be the word of the LordAnd the stars that move with my vessel will be good friends.

Dear Clark Christopher,

December 27, 2010 Your name is a story, and you will grow up in the telling of this story.  Over meals, in our going out and our coming in, even in your lying down, you will hear this story.  Your mother and I are eager to see your own story be told; each action and […]