On the Ropes
At the Knowing Christ conference last week John Ortberg offered a wonderful metaphor for the process of spiritual formation in which he tells of an experience he had sometime ago. He was at a "ropes course" where they have you do things 20 and 30 feet in the air, with...
Stairway to God
In The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, there is a wonderful analogy given in the introduction to Ephesians: "Twentieth-century archaeology has uncovered several curious things about the ancient Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Among them is the random design of the southern stairs, which carried weary pilgrims from the Typropoean Valley...
What is Bread?
What if Albert Schweitzer had gone to Africa and set up a hospital there, only to have the natives stay away and avoid what he had to offer. Instead, what if they continued to rely on their homemade remedies for sickness, their witch doctors, and their superstitions. I can only imagine...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!" (Lk.13:34). In thinking about my journey and where I have come from, the grief of having lost so...