Risking Obedience The ‘OH-NO!’ Principle For parents, and anyone who disciples others: What’s one, sure-fire thing you can do to help root the faith in those you are leading . . . to protect them … Read More
Dear Friend…On Anxiety
As a frequent retreat speaker, I often find the conversations that follow a gathering to be the most fruitful. This month I’m taking a break from the Fine Fire topic to share a bit of … Read More
Pray Scary Prayers – Part 2 (The Prayer Lab)
The picture of Jesus surrounded by children is in all our Sunday school books. It’s a tableau so familiar and so tame. Yet somehow in its tenderness, we have lost the sense of what a … Read More
Pray Scary Prayers – Part 1 (God’s Got This)
You think you’ve learned something. You think you know something . . . only to discover that you’ll be schooled in the same truth, over and over, all your life. Our lessons in praying scary … Read More
One Warning and Two Anti-Virals
I’m constantly intrigued with the threads of plot or character that run through the whole of the Scriptures. Like repeating melody lines in a symphony, or themes in a novel, they speak to the unity … Read More
Let Them See!
Psalm 78 voices the strangest declaration. The people of Israel are rehearsing the wonders the Lord accomplished in the Red Sea parting, and in their sojourn through the wilderness. Yet they begin with such an … Read More
The New Book of Common Prayer and Guidelines for its Use
Dear Diocesan Family As many of you know, at our June Provincial Assembly we had the joy and privilege of receiving the 2019 ACNA Book of Common Prayer. May the Lord be praised! This is … Read More
Signpost #10 – Rehearsing Helplessness!
It’s almost over. Moses has died, and so has the generation of Israel who failed to take the land of Canaan when God wanted to give it. This time for sure! Joshua sends in spies … Read More
Signpost #9 – Almost Home!
In his important book, Being Mortal, Atul Gawande unpacks some unexpected results of research about what makes for peace and stability at the end of life. He first reports on a study which found that … Read More
Signpost #8 – Fear Lies
We are hearing the word lies every day now in the news. Charges and counter charges. Are certain political leaders lying to us? Or is it the media? Most of us, if we’re honest, have a gnawing … Read More
Signpost #7 – Identity Idolatry
Do you ever wish, as I do, that God would hand you His personality inventory assessment of you, kind of like a divine Myers-Briggs report? King David cries out for it in Psalm 139: Search me, … Read More
Signpost #6 – Remember!
Eleven troubling habits of chronically unhappy people. Five ways to spice up your marriage. Seven reasons to stay single. Eight steps to managing stress. Ten reasons twenty-somethings are returning to traditional worship … Is anyone … Read More
Signpost #5 – Vent Rightly!
There’s an almost comical sameness to the way God’s people respond to the difficulties God allows them to experience in the Wilderness. They wail. They rail. They rage and accuse. For some reason this reminds … Read More