Worship never existed as escape from the world, but preparation for life within it.
For many years, I held piety as my god.
The reasoning was always the same. The gods were angry. The gods were hungry. The gods required payment.

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Our God is a living God and he listens to our cries for help.
Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
Paul calls them the fruits of the Spirit after all
When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
Only by faith in Christ are we truly awake.
Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
As is often the case in Scripture, creation is about a renewed, restored, and redeemed relationship with the Creator.