One particular Dogwood tree became a metaphor for my acceptance in a small town. It's a metaphor for the Life-Vine we have been grafted into. And it's a metaphor for the continuing work of Jesus's Church in the world. Friendship across difference.
Just imagine if our walk with Christ ⏤ representing his kingdom in the world ⏤ were as practiced and pure as Hania Rani’s fingers on the piano keys.
During a spring trip, my wife and I purchased a glass bowl. It's colorful and handmade. When I turn the bowl upside down, nothing falls out. Does that make it empty?
Good will and good faith do not describe the world's systems, structures, and patterns. But they do describe a called-out people set apart for God. It falls to the Church to walk in the light, to shine light, to salt and leaven culture. To be a pleasing aroma that comes with knowing God.
Could we be so secure in God's love for us, so clear-eyed about how little we know for certain, and so committed to shalom, that fear and division would be overwhelmed by curiosity and the possibility of friendship?
With readiness and care, good pastors work with God to maintain and enlarge a meadow of shalom in the midst of chaos and division; an embassy of eternal life along the edges of a broken culture.
Two recipes for adding joy to life. Both are meant to be shared with companions, around tables.
If eternal life is knowing the only true God and the Son, then what does it mean to know? The question led to a book recommendation made by Makoto Fujimura, an acclaimed artist, writer, and speaker. The book is A Little Manual for Knowing, by Esther Lightcap Meek.
One particular Dogwood tree became a metaphor for my acceptance in a small town. It's a metaphor for the Life-Vine we have been grafted into. And it's a metaphor for the continuing work of Jesus's Church in the world. Friendship across difference.
Just imagine if our walk with Christ ⏤ representing his kingdom in the world ⏤ were as practiced and pure as Hania Rani’s fingers on the piano keys.
The life of believers is an endless loop of gathering, including, and thriving as a holy, called-out community.
Two poems describe the Christian's journey with other Christians and life in God's kingdom.
Mannapolis™ is a little-bit-silly-made-up name for the Kingdom of God— the seat of 'with Christ' culture. The name's parts, manna and polis, illustrate three features of God’s kingdom.
During a spring trip, my wife and I purchased a glass bowl. It's colorful and handmade. When I turn the bowl upside down, nothing falls out. Does that make it empty?
