Feb 13, 2018 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Brad Jersak and Andrew Klager recently posted a wonderful conversation on the Jesus Prayer, focusing in on the last phrase, ‘me, a sinner.’ The Jesus Prayer is very important to me. It has been central to my prayer life for a number of years now. I have chewed on it,...
Apr 18, 2015 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Jesus does not wear a top hat, red coat, and black boots. He doesn’t carry a whip with which to snap over our heads, driving us to leap through fiery hoops for his amusement. He is not a ringmaster in some unpleasant cosmic circus. Are you relieved? Too many of us...
Jan 10, 2015 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus begins with a list of blessings. Among these, we find a call to mercy coupled with a promise: Joyful are the merciful, for they shall be rejoicing daily in the mercy they receive. Mercy is important. Perhaps, more important than many...
Feb 13, 2014 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Sin, Your Eyes, and Seeing God As I sat in the back seat of a car, staring out the window at the landscape rushing by, I began to feel tired. My eyes grew heavy and I let them close. Then the gentle whisper of Jesus came to me and he said, “Sin broke humanity’s view...
Aug 27, 2013 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
One day as summer was approaching a couple of years ago, I made a mistake. I don’t mean the kind of mistake where you’ve done something wrong and now you’ve got to face a consequence, because it wasn’t like that. No, this is one of those mistakes any seriously...
Nov 2, 2010 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
In some ways human history can be summed up in the search for freedom. Not only to be free, but more profoundly, what it means to be free. The path goes something like this: if we can figure out how to be free we will as a result be happy, satisfied, and...
