February 2013

Hope

posted on February 26, 2013

Stasi – my source of great worship music – just played a new song for me last night that captures something God put on our hearts in a big way these past few months. It’s called “Suddenly” (by Daniel Bashta) and the opening lines go like this:

We are longing for your coming

We are desperate for your presence

And the refrain goes,

Suddenly come, suddenly come, suddenly come just like you promised.

Oh friends, it is nearer now than ever.

Back in November we held a small retreat here in Colorado. As the event drew near, Jesus gave us a new topic, and in doing so we knew that he had something on his heart for us. Not just for us at the retreat, but for all of us who love him and call upon him.

...

Comments

Not so strange bedfellows

posted on February 25, 2013

Was anyone else a bit shocked last night when, in the midst of the Academy Awards, we were taken live to the White House to behold the First Lady assume the role of a presenter??!

It was very, very telling. A parable of our times.

For one thing, we watched the utterly seamless blending of the most serious office in the nation with one of the silliest. The princes of make-believe joined with the office of grave events. The jester and the Queen went on a date. Does anyone else see the problem here?

The Academy Awards can be a fun evening some times, a politically correct event other times, and always a rather incestuous affair as the world watches Hollywood give itself awards in a self-congratulating love fest. It is...

Comments

How Are You Interpreting Reality?

posted on February 21, 2013

"Why, God?"

The young man was lying on the bathroom floor, in a foreign country; he had passed out and was covered with yuck. He is a beautiful young man, a friend of my sons, a follower of Christ, bright, creative, gifted. He has also known more than his share of strange physical afflictions, and this one—passing out in a sketchy bathroom and hitting his head far too hard on the tile floor thousands of miles from home, on a trip that was supposed to be hopeful and adventurous and maybe even romantic—this brought the cry from his heart. The first thing he said when he came to was, "Why, God?!"

The story broke my heart. This young man does not need one more reason to doubt God. And so the story also made me very, very angry...

More..