Jesus
May 29, 2022
I keep thinking of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, what he said once, that, “The wicked walk round in circles.”[1]
June 19, 2022
It should change everything, what we do here.
June 26, 2022
There’s a story I’ve always liked of an old Egyptian monk, from about 1,400 years ago, living in what today is called Wadi al Natrun, southwest of the city of Alexandria. He stepped out of his cell one night and saw the devil himself handing out gardening implements to all the other monks—shovels, spades, a scythe […]
July 3, 2022
Paul said the time would come, a time when people would no longer “tolerate sound doctrine” but rather follow their own “desires” and “curiosity,” listening no longer to the truth but instead to “myths.”[1] Jesus too—he didn’t suggest his followers would be all that successful in their preaching either. The “world hates you,” he told his […]
July 10, 2022
I can’t say I feel all that fit to preach today, given how I failed this gospel just a few days ago.