Holiness Reeducation

A song rang out loud and clear, cutting and piercing my soul “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” Words of rock legend, voiced from a culture of extreme Why would anyone want to grow old, weak, ugly? No glory in being human, the people might stop looking. Kurt heard the words, he [...]

As a pastor and not too long ago graduate student, I know very well the reality of living pay check to pay check. You know the feeling. You budget your money just enough to get to the next pay day. You don’t buy groceries until pay day. You don’t eat out until pay day. You [...]

In Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship he writes for many chapters on the Sermon on the Mount. In his analysis and commentary on Jesus’ most famous teachings, he spend a chapter talking about the nature of righteousness as Christ talks about it in Matthew chapters 5 and 6. Bonhoeffer writes, “In Chapter 5 we [...]

Romans 8:28-31 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And [...]

I saw a man with no arms mowing the grass today. I am serious, as I was driving, there he was, on the side of the road, working at his job and mowing the grass, without the benefit of arms. The site was so striking that it got me thinking about the things in life [...]

I am not sure if what I am talking about is angst (a feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression), malaise (a vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness, or a general sense of depression or unease) or cynicism (an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a [...]