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As I have been continuing to memorize, meditate on, engrave on my heart the passages from Ephesians 1 and 3, various words or phrases continue to evoke something—what? Interest? Certainly a sense that I must come to understand this—I’ve heard these words countless times in my life, but what is Paul trying to communicate here,…

            I have been fascinated by the rate at which we seem to forget certain events while remembering some insignificant detail that no one else seems to have witnessed. Arguments ensue with thorough incomprehension: “I remember that it was like this.” “Well, that’s not what Iremember!” no one closer to the “truth” of the matter.…

Why do my thoughts wander so? Why can I not keep my inner eye on the One who fills me and gives me life? When I was younger I could spend hours in prayer and meditation, filling my journals and interceding for others. Now I can scarcely go two minutes without my mind flitting off…

We can be blind to the obvious. We can be equally blind to our blindness. In the recently published book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman discusses two general processes the brain uses when thinking about, really, anything. He describes “fast” thinking as the immediate impression born from habitual or everyday experience that requires little…

Time.Transcendent. Multi-dimensioned.What is time?            Movement. Fast. Slow.                        Perspectival.Time heals wounds.            Time distances.But what is time, really?            The rotation of the earth.                        Its circling of the sun.The Son.            In time. Above time. Before time.                        At the end of time.Time heals. Jesus heals. Bisecting time.            Decimating time. Obliterating time.            In no time.What do we miss, if we…

We have this unquenchable desire to gather information. I seem to remember something about a tree and some fruit? As Image-bearers we have the capacity to comprehend and the spirit to desire it. I believe God knew that Adam and Eve would want to have the knowledge eating the fruit would bring, but also knew…

Passion:  [păsh’ən] via French, from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb pati (“suffer”).Compassion: [kuhm-pash–uhn] latinized ad. F. compassionné, pa. pple. of compassionner to compassionate; f. Latin com- together with + pati to sufferNOUN 1. Suffering together with another, participation in suffering.            Joe W. Gardner writes in, No Easy Victories, “Leaders have a significant role in creating…