A life well lived
It’s graduation season and in the moment where the world feels rather bleak, weary, and emotionally exhausting with continuing news of COVID-19 and now in America, the grief and rage … Continue reading
Dirty Feet on a Maundy Thursday
To humbly serve your friends is human. To humbly serve your enemies probably divine. But to humbly serve your friends and closest confidants who end up betraying and abandoning you is unthinkable, impossible.
The Great Love Story
In 2011, Oprah interviewed JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and she asked the question: What do you know for sure? And her answer was “Love is … Continue reading
The Power of a Dream
Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor in her recent biography talks about how one student asked her how anyone can realistically aspire to the goal of being a supreme court justice, … Continue reading
More than Rhetoric
I wish Martin Luther King Jr. Day was more than a day. There is such great depth and profundity to the life and rhetoric of this great man. Most of … Continue reading
Weeping at Christmas Time
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” Matthew 2:18 As I grieve … Continue reading
You can’t own eternal life
Who or what possesses you? Reading through Mark again these days and came across the passage about the rich young ruler (Mark 10:17-22). I know this story well, as many … Continue reading
Grace vs Nature
“A man’s heart has heard two ways through life. The way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow. Grace doesn’t try to … Continue reading
Grace with a Side Order of Spit
Finally made it to my first early dawn prayer service in Korea this morning (that would be 5am here folks)—The passage for the sermon was Matthew 27:27-31. The verses describe … Continue reading
Blind Sight
Living in Korea, I’m a little slow on the latest news or blog that has the faith community abuzz, but browsing through Youtube, hit upon Rob Bell and his news … Continue reading
Already & Not Yet 