Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Remembering the cross of Christ, as well as the crucifixion (for clarification, see yesterday’s post) is crucial to our understanding of the atonement, but it isn’t the whole story. That’s likely why I’ve never really liked the old hymn “The Old Rugged Cross”. I get...
Apr 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learnt what truth is really like; once he has truly learnt it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf. – St. Isaac the...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
As postmoderns, we often criticize Evangelicalism (the particular religion we grew up with). However, all religion has (necessary) stages of growth that mimic human development. All religions can serve the ego and/or the Spirit. I see religion as...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
The cross of Christ is much more than just a horrendous method of torturing someone. The cross reveals to us the heart of humanity, rather than the heart of the Father. The cross gives us a picture each and every year of the depths of human depravity and...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
gethsemane – nicholas mynheer As our Lenten journey becomes Passion Week and Easter, there is just too much unrest and tragedy in the world for me to simply focus liturgically on the passion of Christ as a sacred event of the past. It was for the world, the...
Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
There can’t be a holier place than the Holy Land, can there? We first visited the land of the Bible nearly twenty years ago, and it was a life-changing trip, 1996. Brian and I had gone on a Christian pilgrimage trip while we were in the midst of building our sanctuary...
