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Speaking of being woven
A nineteenth-century teacher in the Celtic world, Alexander Scott, used the analogy of royal garments. Apparently in his day, royal garments were woven through with a costly thread, a thread of gold....
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Tried and true
I grew up going to a Lutheran church where every week we followed the liturgy in the red service hymnal–though I don’t ever remember actually opening the book because by the time I could read, I knew...
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God’s Tinkerbelle
Faithful readers of this blog with keen memories will recall that a year ago I started a series on ways to enjoy God. [I think I'm up to five, if you're counting]. Readers with champion memories know...
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Speaking of God’s amuse-bouches
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape...
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Speaking of the Boss
To have a master means that there is One who knows me better than I know myself,One who is closer than a friend,One who fathoms the remotest abyss of my heart and satisfies it,One who has brought me...
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God the artist
“God and other artists are always a little obscure.” Oscar Wilde Gibraltar at Sunset ** **not a Monet, just a photo I took while crossing the Straits
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The coming of the king
The king came to our neighborhood last week. The first we knew of it was in the morning when we went out and noticed that overnight the lines on the street and the curbs had been painted. When the...
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Speaking of the King
Many old hymns talk about God as King: Praise, my soul, the King of heaven, to the throne thy tribute bring; ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, evermore God’s praises sing. Alleluia! Alleluia!...
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Jesus in Ordinary Time
We’re living in Ordinary Time these days, the liturgical period that comes after Pentecost. The seasons of Advent to Christmas and Ash Wednesday to Easter bring a sharp focus on Jesus: virgin birth,...
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Another kind of pouring
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to...
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Taking a pause to praise
I don’t know about you but I’m already plunging ahead into fall. The lazy river of summer has turned into a thunderous waterfall of possibilities. I’m making travel plans, considering new projects,...
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Speaking of blowing trumpets for God
None of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have— right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start— comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s...
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More than my words will ever say
Last Sunday while visiting a church in Los Angeles, I sang this song for the first time. I was immediately captivated by the words and music. It has become especially meaningful to me as I sit with my...
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The 12 Days of King Jesus
One of my beloved Christmas traditions growing up was to sing the Hallelujah Chorus in Junior High chorale. That was in an era when public school students were taught songs with lyrics such as these:...
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The day of the great descent
I went walking Christmas Eve morning in the local park. It was the day of the great descent, the day when the ‘Word who was God’ came down to take on human form. I wondered if the host of heaven–all...
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Our stone jar
[with thanks to Darrell S.] Long, long ago in a different century, on another continent, I attended a Sunday School class on Joshua 4. After 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites were...
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More than Solomon’s glory
There were many things I didn’t know about this country before I moved here. I had no idea that there were a quarter of a million Jews with Moroccan nationality in 1940. Or that less than 2% of them...
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Speaking of God’s beauty
I love looking for beauty. When I do, I feel like I’m partnering with God. He created the beauty, and I’m seeing it and framing it. And there is so much beauty to find. Elizabeth Frank ♦◊♦ In his book,...
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The lamb of God
From our second story terrace, we get a bird’s eye view of local animal life. Flocks of sheep and goats feed on the far hill and sometimes come to the lot on the other side of our wall. In the...
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The speed of love
We had a wonderful service of praise on Palm Sunday. People from the nations processed around the church as they waved palm branches, singing and dancing with joy. It was a celebration fit for a king....
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