Obedience, like worship, is always happening in one direction or another. To eat of the forbidden fruit was not only an act of disobedience toward God, but obedience toward the serpent.

It is the seed of nostalgia, while the planting of it is still too new to have yet bloomed. There is a desire to somehow bottle it up or recapture it, but it will forever elude us, living on only in the sweet aches of memory.

In the midst of everything within and without, she gathered the many words and conspicuous meetings, and she ruminated on what it all might add up to, what it necessitated of her, how she might be obedient in it

They, without commission, proclaimed that which they had heard from angels. Do we, with clear command, proclaim that which we have experienced with Christ?

Left to its own cultural drift, ‘peace’ might sail us toward hippie protest signage or a bygone Beatles lyric.

How idolatrous the heart which makes God either the fulfillment of its own carnal wishes, or the fiend at fault for all displeasures! 

What silliness when we speak of somehow making Jesus the Lord of our life! He is Lord of all life

When the person from whom I have a right to expect nothing, gives me everything.

I recall my own salvation, my own miracle, when I at first heard the gloriously incomprehensible yet manifest call to faith in Christ

For among all other virtues, the virtue of a shepherd, the virtue of being one who…

There is no checkmate moved against our days or our souls which the Almighty does not maneuver to His purposes.

The flesh seeks potential and profitability for its investments. The Spirit moves toward the fringes, toward the needs

The faith required to complete the work of God is no small thing. Yet, that faith is expressed in such modest daily dosage.